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Peltophryne peltocephala (Tschudi, 1838)
Bufo peltocephalus Tschudi, 1838, Classif. Batr.: 52, 89. Holotype: MNHNP 4989, according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 15. Type locality: Cuba; restricted to "vicinity of Santiago de Cuba, Oriente [now Santiago de Cuba] Province, Cuba" by Schwartz, 1960, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 73: 47.
Bufo peltocephalus Bibron in De la Sagra, 1840, Hist. Fis. Polit. Nat. Cuba, 8 (Atlas Zool.): plate 30 (Reptiles).
Peltophryne peltocephalus — Fitzinger, 1843, Syst. Rept.: 32; Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 365.
Peltaphryne peltocephalus — Gundlach, 1880, Contr. Erpetol. Cubana: 83.
Peltophryne peltocephala — Pregill, 1981, Copeia, 1981: 273.
Bufo peltocephalus — Hedges, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 100, by implication; Pramuk, 2000, J. Herpetol., 34: 334.
English Names
Tschudi's Caribbean Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 45).
Cuban Toad (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 44).
Eastern Cuba Giant Toad (Hedges, Powell, Henderson, Hanson, and Murphy, 2019, Caribb. Herpetol., 67: 8).
Distribution
Lowlands and moderate elevations from the central region to extreme eastern Cuba, including the Santa María, Coco, Parédon Grande, Romano, Guajaba and Sabinal keys, and Cayo Coco, Archipielago de Sabana-Camaguey, below 800 m elevation.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Cuba
Endemic: Cuba
Comment
See comments under Peltophryne fustiger and Peltophryne empusa. Alonso and Rodriguez, 2003, Phyllomedusa, 2: 75–82, reported on the advertisement call. Díaz and Cádiz, 2008, Guía Taxon. Anf. Cuba: 1–294, provided an account, as Bufo peltocephalus. Henderson and Powell, 2009, Nat. Hist. Rept. Amph. W. Indies: 31–32, summarized the natural history literature (as Bufo peltocephalus). Rivalta González, Rodríguez Schettino, Mancina, and Iturriaga, 2014, Smithson. Herpetol. Inform. Serv., 145: 9–10, provided a dot map and localities. Rodriguez, Börner, Pabijan, Gehara, Haddad, and Vences, 2015, Evol. Ecol., 29: 765–785 (and supplemental data), reported on phylogeographic diversity and its causes. del Castillo Domínguez and Bosch, 2023, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 140: 471–483, discussed character displacement in release calls among Cuban Peltophryne species. del Castillo Domínguez and Bosch, 2023, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 140: 471–483, discussed character displacement in release calls among Cuban Peltophryne species.
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