Pseudobufo subasper Tschudi, 1838

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Bufonidae > Genus: Pseudobufo > Species: Pseudobufo subasper

Pseudobufo subasper Tschudi, 1838, Classif. Batr.: 49, 87. Syntypes: RMNH 2199, 2200, and 2216, according Gassó Miracle, van den Hoek Ostende, and Arntzen, 2007, Zootaxa, 1482: 53. Type locality: "Borneo".

Bufo subasperTschudi, 1838, Classif. Batr.: 87. Alternative name noted as the jar label name for RMNH syntypes.

Bufo subasperDuméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 6: 647.

Nectes pleurotaenia Bleeker, 1857, Natuurkd. Tijdschr. Nederl. Indie, 13: 475. Nomen nudum. Synonymy by Van Kampen, 1905, Zool. Jahrb., Jena, Abt. Syst., 22: 711; Boulenger, 1912, in Robinson (ed.), Vert. Fauna of the Malay Peninsula: 275; and Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 160.

Nectes subasperCope, 1865, Nat. Hist. Rev., N.S., 5: 103. Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 327.

Pseudobufo subasperBoulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 327.

Nectes (Pseudobufo) pleurotaeniaFischer, 1885, Arch. Naturgesch., 51: 47.

Nectes sumatranus Werner, 1900, Zool. Jahrb., Jena, Abt. Syst., 13: 497. Holotype: Implied to be in NHMB, but NHMW 14851, according to Häupl and Tiedemann, 1978, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 2: 25, and Häupl, Tiedemann, and Grillitsch, 1994, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 9: 29 (likely in error); NHMB 1917 considered holotype by Forcart, 1946, Verh. Naturforsch. Ges. Basel, 57: 122 (but this is holotype of Nectes werneri—DRF). Type locality: "Urwald Djapura (Inneres von Indragiri)", Sumatra [Indonesia], according to Häupl, Tiedemann, and Grillitsch, 1994, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 9: 29. Synonymy by Van Kampen, 1905, Zool. Jahrb., Jena, Abt. Syst., 22: 711; Boulenger, 1912, in Robinson (ed.), Vert. Fauna of the Malay Peninsula: 275; Nieden, 1914, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1914: 370; Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 160; Inger, 1966, Fieldiana, Zool., 52: 113.

Nectes werneri Van Kampen, 1905, Zool. Jahrb., Jena, Abt. Syst., 22: 711. Holotype: NHMB 1917, according to Inger, 1966, Fieldiana, Zool., 52: 113. Type locality: "Sumatra"; given as "Indragiri, Sumatra", Indonesia by Inger, 1966, Fieldiana, Zool., 52: 113, who made the synonymy.

Pseudobufo werneriNieden, 1914, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1914: 369.

English Names

False Toad (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 44; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 45).

Distribution

Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Indonesia, Malaysia, Malaysia, East (Sarawak and/or Sabah), Malaysia, West (Peninsular)

Comment

See accounts by Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 186-187, and Inger, 1966, Fieldiana, Zool., 52: 113-115. See also Berry, 1975, Amph. Fauna Peninsular Malaysia: 57. See brief account and photo by Manthey and Grossmann, 1997, Amph. Rept. Südostasiens: 43.

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