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Rhinella limensis (Werner, 1901)
Bufo limensis Werner, 1901, Abh. Ber. Zool. Anthropol. Ethnograph. Mus. Dresden, 9: 14. Holotype: MTD D1795, by original designation. Type locality: "Umgebung von Lima", Peru.
Bufo spinulosus limensis — Vellard, 1959, Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat. Javier Prado, 8: 18; Cei, Erspamer, and Roseghini, 1968, Syst. Zool., 17: 239.
Bufo limensis limensis — Cei, 1972, in Blair (ed.), Evol. Genus Bufo: 82-91.
Chaunus limensis — 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: 364. Savage and Bolaños, 2009, Zootaxa, 2005: 4, by implication.
Rhinella limensis — Chaparro, Pramuk, and Gluesenkamp, 2007, Herpetologica, 63: 211, by implication; Pramuk, Robertson, Sites, and Noonan, 2008, Global Ecol. Biogeograph., 17: 76.
Common Names
Peru Coast Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 42).
Distribution
Arid Peruvian coast from Pisco north to Sechura desert, 70-2830 m elevation.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Peru
Endemic: Peru
Comment
In the Bufo spinulosus group of Martin, 1972, in Blair (ed.), Evol. Genus Bufo: 57. Possibly conspecific with Bufo vellardi (as Bufo orientalis Vellard, 1959) according to Cei, 1972, in Blair (ed.), Evol. Genus Bufo: 82-91. See comment under Rhinella vellardi. Considered a subspecies of Rhinella spinulosa (as Bufo) by Vellard, 1959, Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat. Javier Prado, 8: 18, and Gorham, 1974, Checklist World Amph.: 84, or a synonym by Boulenger, 1902, Zool. Rec., 38: 33, or Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 115. Córdova, 1999, Stuttgart. Beit. Naturkd., Ser. A—Biol., 600: 1-28, reported on karyotype and relationship to Rhinella spinulosa (as Bufo). Vera Candioti, Grosso, Pereyra, Haad, Lescano, Siu-Ting, Aguilar, and Baldo, 2020, Herpetol. Monogr., 34: 116–130, reported on larval morphology. In the Rhinella marina clade, Rhinella spinulosa group of Pereyra, Blotto, Baldo, Chaparro, 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, who reported on systematics.
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