Rhinella nicefori (Cochran and Goin, 1970)

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

Bufo rostratus nicefori Cochran and Goin, 1970, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 288: 95. Holotype: USNM 163476, by original designation. Type locality: "El Chaquiro, [Department of] Antioquia, Colombia"; corrected to "Hacienda Palmas, El Chaquiro, Departamento de Antioquia, Colombia, elevation 2670 m" by Trueb, 1971, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 216: 29.

Rhamphophryne niceforiTrueb, 1971, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 216: 6, 29.

Rhinella niceforiChaparro, Pramuk, and Gluesenkamp, 2007, Herpetologica, 63: 211, by implication.

English Names

Colombian Beaked Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 45).

Distribution

Known only from the type locality on the eastern slope of the Cordillera Central, Antioquia, Colombia, 2670 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia

Endemic: Colombia

Comment

 In the Rhinella marina clade, Rhinella festae 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. Cruz-Rodríguez, Lynch, Cárdenas, and Caicedo-Portilla, 2021, Zootaxa, 4965: 262, pictured the paratypes in the MLS. 

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