Rhinella inca (Stejneger, 1913)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Bufonidae > Genus: Rhinella > Species: Rhinella inca

Common Names

Inca Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 42).

Distribution

Central Peru in the departments of Ayaucho and Cuzco, 900–1900 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Peru

Endemic: Peru

Comment

Considered distinct by Cei, 1968, Pearce-Sellards Ser., 13: 12, but considered a synonym of Rhinella veraguensis (as Bufo) by Barbour and Noble, 1920, Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 58: 609–620; and Hoogmoed, 1990, in Peters and Hutterer (eds.), Vert. Tropics: 116. Resurrected by Duellman and Schulte, 1992, Copeia, 1992: 162–172, who reported sympatry with Rhinella veraguensis and placed this species in their Bufo veraguensis group. In the Rhinella margaritifera clade, Rhinella veraguensis group of Pereyra, Blotto, Baldo, Chaparro Auza, Ron, Elias-Costa, Iglesias, Venegas, Thomé, Ospina-Sarria, Maciel, Rada, Kolenc, Borteiro, Rivera-Correa, Rojas-Runjaic, Moravec, De la Riva, Wheeler, Castroviejo-Fisher, Grant, Haddad, and Faivovich, 2021, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 447: 1–156. Köhler, Vences, Padial, Plewnia, and Lötters, 2023, Salamandra, 59: 321, provided a dot map of the species. 

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