Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Rana bombina Linnaeus, 1761, Fauna Svec.: 101. Syntypes: Holm, 1957, Uppsala Univ. Arsskrift, 1957: 5-68, stated that there are two specimens in the Alströmer collection, which now belongs to the ZIUU, that might be syntypes. The status of these specimens is questionable; see comment below. Type locality: "Scaniae compestris fossis australibus".

Bufo igneus Laurenti, 1768, Spec. Med. Exhib. Synops. Rept.: 29, 129. Type(s): By indication frogs illustrated by Roesel von Rosenhof, 1758, Hist. Nat. Ran. Nost.: pl. 22, 23. Type locality: "Habitat in paludibus nostris Danubialibus ingenti in copia; autumno omnis via, qua itur in Nusdorff, iisdem scatet"; rendered as "Strasse zweischen Nussdorf und Wien" (= Between Nussdorf and Vienna), by Mertens and Wermuth, 1960, Amph. Rept. Europas: 39. Synonymy by Suckow, 1798, Anfang. Theoret. Angwewant. Naturgesch. Thiere, Amph.: 66; Shaw, 1802, Gen. Zool., 3(1): 116; Daudin, 1802 "An. XI", Hist. Nat. Rain. Gren. Crap., Quarto: 76; Gravenhorst, 1807, Vergleich. Uebersicht Linn. Neuern Zool. Syst.: 436; Schinz, 1822, Thierr. Naturgesch., 2: 175; Schinz, 1833, Naturgesch. Abbild Rept.: 234; Tschudi, 1838, Classif. Batr.: 84; Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 447.

Buffo ignicolor Lacépède, 1788, Hist. Nat. Quadrup. Ovip. Serpens, 16mo ed., 2: 460. Lacépède, 1788, Hist. Nat. Quadrup. Ovip. Serpens, Quarto ed., 1: Table following page 618 and referencing account starting on page 595. Substitute name for Bufo igneus Laurenti, 1768. Rejected as published in a nonbinominal work by Opinion 2104, Anonymous, 2005, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 62: 55.

Bufo bombinus —Latreille In Sonnini de Manoncourt and Latreille, 1801 (An. X), Hist. Nat. Rept., 2: 110. Daudin, 1802 "An. XI", Hist. Nat. Rain. Gren. Crap., Quarto: 75, pl. 36; Schinz, 1833, Naturgesch. Abbild Rept.: 234.

Rana ignea — Shaw, 1802, Gen. Zool., 3(1): 116.

Bufo pluvialis Daudin, 1802 (An. XI), Hist. Nat. Rain. Gren. Crap., Quarto: pl. 26. Substitute name for Rana bombina Linnaeus, 1761.

Rana cruenta Pallas, 1814 "1831", Zoograph. Rosso-Asiat. Sist. Omn. Animal.: 12. Types: Not stated. Type locality: Central Russia; for discussion of the type locality see Kuzmin, 1996, Adv. Amph. Res. Former Soviet Union, 1: 51-53. Synonymy by Nikolskii, 1918, Fauna Rossii, Zemnovodnye: 167; Kuzmin, 1999, Amph. Former Soviet Union: 356.

Bombinator igneus — Merrem, 1820, Tent. Syst. Amph.: 179. Schlegel, 1826, Bull. Sci. Nat. Geol., Paris, Ser. 2, 9: 239; Wiegmann, 1832, in Wiegmann and Ruthe (eds.), Handbuch der Zool., Amph.: 201; Schreiber, 1875, Herpetol. Eur.: 95.

Bombina ignea — Sturm, 1828, Deutschl. Fauna, Amph.: heft 1.

Bufo (Bombinator) bombina — Cuvier, 1829, Regne Animal., Ed. 2, 2: 111. by implication.

Bombitator bombinus — Wagler, 1830, Nat. Syst. Amph.: 206. by implication; Glückselig, 1851, Lotos, Prague, 1: 224.

Bufo cruentus — Dvigubsky, 1832, Opyt Estestvennoi Istorii Gady: 35.

Bufo bombinus — Schinz, 1833, Naturgesch. Abbild Rept.: 234.

Bufo bombina — Schinz, 1837, Neue Denkschr. Allg. Schweiz. Ges. Naturwiss., 1: 145.

Bombinator igneus — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 447.

Bombinator bombina — Bedriaga, 1890 "1889", Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou, N.S.,, 3: 581. Poche, 1912, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 61: 405.

Bombinator variegatus bombina — Prazák, 1898, Zool. Jahrb., Jena, Abt. Syst., 22: 218.

Bombina bombina — Stejneger, 1907, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 58: 51. Mertens, 1923, Senckenb. Biol., 5: 214.

Bombina bombina danubialis Calinescu, 1931, Mem. Sect. Sciin. Acad. Româna Bucaresti, Ser. 3, 7: 135. Syntypes: 16 specimens, not stated but presumably originally in MGAB. Type locality: "strânse de mine în Lunca Mofleni, lânga Caiova, judetul Dolj", Romania.

Bombina bombina var. viridis Marián, 1959, Vert. Hungar., 1: 158. Type(s): Not stated. Type locality: Not stated.

Bombina (Bombina) bombina — Tian and Hu, 1985, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, Chengdu, N.S.,, 4 (3): 219-224. Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 97.

Bombina bombina arifiyensi Özeti and Yilmaz, 1987, J. Fac. Sci. Ege Univ., Izmir, Ser. B, 9: 41-49. Holotype: SZE 9/1983-11, by original designation. Type locality: "Arifiye", northwestern Anatolia, Turkey.

English Names

Ringing Frog (Lacépède, 1802, Nat. Hist. Ovip. Quadruped. (Kerr transl.): 235).

Fiery Toad (Lacépède, 1802, Nat. Hist. Ovip. Quadruped. (Kerr transl.): 306).

Fire Frog (Shaw, 1802, Gen. Zool., 3(1): 116).

Fire-bellied Toad (Cochran, 1961, Living Amph. World: 53; Hellmich, 1962, Rept. Amph. Eur.: 60; Arnold and Burton, 1978, Field Guide Rept. Amph. Brit. Eur.: 61; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 51; Stumpel-Rienks, 1992, Ergänzungsband Handbuch Rept. Amph. Eur., Trivialnamen der Herpetofauna Eur.: 43; Kuzmin, 1999, Amph. Former Soviet Union: 193; Tarkhnishvili and Gokhelashvili, 1999, Adv. Amph. Res. Former Soviet Union, 4: v; Arnold, 2002, Rept. Amph. Eur., Ed. 2: 61).

Firebelly Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 38).

European Fire-bellied Toad (Halliday and Adler, 2002, New Encyclop. Rept. Amph.: 82).

Distribution

Central and eastern Europe from Denmark and central Germany east to the Ural Mountains and south to the Caucasus Mountains; in the north to the Gulf of Finland; European and northwestern Asiatic Turkey; specimens from Sweden are probably introduced.

Comment

This species maintains stable hybrid zones in Poland with Bombina variegata according to Szymura, 1976, Bull. Acad. Pol. Sci., Ser. Sci. Biol., 24: 355-368; Gollmann, 1984, Z. Zool. Syst. Evolutionsforsch., 22: 51-64, and Szymura, Spolsky, and Uzzell, 1985, Experientia, 41: 1469-1470. See account by Kuzmin, 1999, Amph. Former Soviet Union: 193-201. Nöllert and Nöllert, 1992, Die Amph. Eur.: 253-257, provided an account and polygon map. Gollmann, Pialek, Szymura, and Arntzen, 1997, in Gasc et al. (eds.), Atlas Amph. Rept. Eur.: 96-97, discussed relevant literature and distribution. Arnold, 2002, Rept. Amph. Eur., Ed. 2: 61, provided a brief account, figure, and map. Özeti and Yilmaz, 1994, Türkiye Amfibileri: 107-111, provided an account for Turkish populations. Gislén and Kauri, 1959, Acta Vert., Stockholm, 1: 249-262, reported on Swedish populations. Pikulik, 1996, Zemnavodnyia Pauzuny: 102-105, provided an account for the Belarus population. Vörös, Alcobendas, Martínez-Solano, and García-París, 2005, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 38: 705-718, reported on mtDNA introgression of Bombina bombina and Bombina variegata in the Carpathian Basin. Fijarczyk, Nadachowska, Hofman, Litvinchuk, Wiesłow, Stuglik, Gollmann, Choleva, Cogǎlniceanu, Vukov, Džukić, and Szymura, 2011, Mol. Ecol., 20: 3381-339, discussed the phylogeographic distinctiveness of Bombina bombina and Bombina variegata. Stojanov, Tzankov, and Naumov, 2011, Die Amph. Rept. Bulgariens: 153-158, provided a fairly detailed account and range map for Bulgaria.

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