Rhaebo blombergi (Myers and Funkhouser, 1951)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Bufonidae > Genus: Rhaebo > Species: Rhaebo blombergi

Bufo blombergi Myers and Funkhouser, 1951, Zoologica, New York, 36: 279. Holotype: CAS-SU 10419, by original designation. Type locality: "Nachao, Nariño Province, southwestern Colombia, at an altitude of about 550 meters".

Rhaebo blombergiFrost, 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.

Common Names

Blomberg's Giant Toad (Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 2: xxxi). 

Sapo Gigante de Blomberg (Spanish: Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 2: xxxi).

Blomberg's Toad (Cochran, 1961, Living Amph. World: 80; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 37).

Colombian Giant Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 40). .

Distribution

Northwestern Ecuador (Esmeraldas, Carchi, and Imbabura provinces) to western Colombia (Cauca, Chocó, Nariño, and Valle del Cauca provinces) on the western slopes of the Cordillera Occidental, 35–1100 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia, Ecuador

Comment

See Hoogmoed, 1989, Zool. Verh., Leiden, 250: 1–32. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status (as Bufo blombergi) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 611. Mueses-Cisneros, Cisneros-Heredia, and McDiarmid, 2012, Zootaxa, 3447: 22–40, discussed some likely misidentifications in the literature. Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 2: 271–274, provided an account, with photographs, which summarized identification, adult and larval morphology, systematics, natural history, distribution (including a dot map for Ecuador), and conservation.

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