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Rhinella roqueana (Melin, 1941)
Bufo typhonius roqueanus Melin, 1941, Göteborgs K. Vetensk. Vitterh. Samh. Handl., Ser. B, 1: 17. Syntypes: NHMG (4 specimens), by original designation. NHMG Ba.ex. 460 (2 specimens) listed in museum records; the status of the other two specimens is not known. Type locality: "Roque, Perú".
Bufo roqueanus — Hoogmoed, 1990, in Peters and Hutterer (eds.), Vert. Tropics: 117–120, by implication; Duellman and Schulte, 1992, Copeia, 1992: 162–172.
Rhinella roqueana — 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: 366.
Common Names
None noted.
Distribution
Amazonian eastern Ecuador, northwestern Peru, and southeastern Colombia; expected in adjacent Brazil.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
Likely/Controversially Present: Brazil
Comment
See discussion by Hoogmoed, 1986, in Rocek (ed.), Studies in Herpetol.: 147–150, and Hoogmoed, 1990, in Peters and Hutterer (eds.), Vert. Tropics: 117–120, who first recognized this taxon as a species. The diagnostic differences between this form and geographically proximate members of Rhinella are not well documented. See comment under Rhinella margaritifera. In the Rhinella margaritifera clade, Rhinella margaritifera 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.
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