- Amphibian Species of the World on Twitter
- What is the right name?
- Curator's blog
- Running log of additions and changes, 2023
- Logs of changes and additions, 2014–2022
- How to cite
- How to use
- History of the project, 1980 to 2023
- Comments on amphibian taxonomy relating to versions 3.0 to 6.1 (2004 to 2023)
- Scientific Nomenclature and Its Discontents
- Structure of the taxonomic records
- Contributors and reviewers for Amphibian Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (1985)
- Contributors, online editions
- Versions
- Museum abbreviations
- Links to useful amphibian systematic, conservation, collection management, informational, and/or regional sites
- Links to useful FREE library sites
- Copyright and terms of use
Rentapia hosii (Boulenger, 1892)
Nectophryne hosii Boulenger, 1892, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1892: 508. Holotype: BMNH 1892.6.3.19 (now renumbered 1947.2.19.29), according to Inger, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 72, and museum records. Type locality: "Mt. Dulit, Sarawak", Malaysia (Borneo).
Pedostibes hosii — Barbour, 1938, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 51: 192.
Pedostibes hosei — Inger, 1966, Fieldiana, Zool., 52: 93. Incorrect subsequent spelling.
Rentapia hosii — Chan, Grismer, Zachariah, Brown, and Abraham, 2016, PLoS One, 11(1: e0145903): 9.
English Names
Boulenger's Asian Tree Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 45).
Common Tree Toad (Kiew, 1987, Malayan Nat. J., 41: 418).
Tree Toad (Nutphund, 2001, Amph. Thailand: 75).
House's [sic] Tree Toad (Nutphund, 2001, Amph. Thailand: 75).
Malayan Brown Toad (Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 94).
Brown Tree Toad (Das, Jankowski, Makmor, and Haas, 2007, Mitt. Hamburg. Zool. Mus. Inst., 104: 147; Das, 2007, Amph. Rept. Brunei: 30).
Hose's Tree Toad (Niyomwan, Srisom, and Pawangkhanant, 2019, Field Guide Amph. Thailand: 192).
Distribution
Southwestern Borneo northeast to Sabah, Malaysia. See comment.
Comment
Records from south of the Isthmus of Kra in Thailand and Malaysia now assigned to Rentapia flavomaculata. See Inger, 1966, Fieldiana, Zool., 52: 93–96. Das, Jankowski, Makmor, and Haas, 2007, Mitt. Hamburg. Zool. Mus. Inst., 104: 147, provided a brief description of specimens (as Pedostibes hosii) from Sarawak. Das, 2007, Amph. Rept. Brunei: 30, provided a photograph and brief account (as Pedostibes hosii). Placed into Rentapia by Chan, Grismer, Zachariah, Brown, and Abraham, 2016, PLoS One, 11(1: e0145903): 9. Niyomwan, Srisom, and Pawangkhanant, 2019, Field Guide Amph. Thailand: 192–193, provided a brief account (photographs, habitat, and range) for Thailand (in Thai). See revision and detailed account by Chan, Abraham, and Badli-Sham, 2020, Raffles Bull. Zool., 68: 595–607, who suggested that this nominal taxon is composed of two species. Haas, Das, Hertwig, Bublies, and Schulz-Schaeffer, 2022, Guide to the Tadpoles of Borneo: 126–128, summarized the knowledge of habitat, reproduction, larval morphology and coloration.
External links:
Please note: these links will take you to external websites not affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History. We are not responsible for their content.
- For additional sources of information from other sites search Google
- For images search CalPhoto Images and Google Images
- To search the NIH genetic sequence database, see GenBank
- For additional information see AmphibiaWeb report
- For information on conservation status and distribution see the IUCN Redlist
- For related information on conservation and images as well as observation see iNaturalist
- For access to available specimen data for this species, from over 350 scientific collections, go to Vertnet.