Sclerophrys taiensis (Rödel and Ernst, 2000)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Bufonidae > Genus: Sclerophrys > Species: Sclerophrys taiensis

Bufo taiensis Rödel and Ernst, 2000, Herpetofauna, Weinstadt, 22: 10. Holotype: SMNS 9269, by original designation. Type locality: "Elfenbeinküste: Taï-Nationalpark, 5° 15′—6° 07′ N, 7° 25′—7° 54′ W, etwa 23 km östlich der Ortschaft Taï", southwestern Ivory Coast.

Bufo amieti Tandy and Perret, 2000, Rev. Suisse Zool., 107: 390. Holotype: MHNG 2594.17, by original designation. Type locality: "lowland rainforest near Taï, Taï National Park, Côte-d'Ivoire (5° 52′ N 7° 28′ W, altitude 123 m)". Synonymy by S. Stuart In 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: 363, presumably based on a note attached to the distributed separate by Tandy and Perret noting the status of their name. 

Amietophrynus taiensis — 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: 363.

Sclerophrys taiensis — Ohler and Dubois, 2016, PeerJ, 4(e1553): 9.

Common Names

Taï Toad (Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 72.)

Distribution

Known from Tai National Park in southwestern Ivory Coast, although likely in adjacent Liberia; also reported from the Gola Forest of Sierra Leone near the western Liberia border. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone

Likely/Controversially Present: Liberia

Comment

In the Bufo tuberosus group according to the original publication. See comment under Bufo amieti. Schätti, Perret, and Mariaux, 2002, Cat. Comm. Types Amph. Rept. Mus. Hist. Nat. Geneve, Vers. 4.0 (Jan. 2002): 6, retained Bufo amieti as distinct from Bufo taiensis. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Bufo scortecci) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 192. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 72–73, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. 

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