Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Vibrissaphora boringii Liu, 1945, J. West China Border Res. Soc., Ser. B, 15: 28. Holotype: CIB 237, by original designation. Type locality: "Ta-nge-sze [= Taosze] ( . . .), Mont-Omei, 3590 feet altitude", Sichuan, China.

Leptobrachium (Leptobrachium) boringii — Dubois, 1980, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 49: 476.

Leptobrachium (Vibrissaphora) boringii — Duellman and Trueb, 1986, Biol. Amph.: 56. Dubois and Ohler, 1998, Dumerilia, 4: 26; Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean, and Ohler, 2006, Alytes, 24: 12; Matsui, Hamidy, Murphy, Khonsue, Yambun, Shimada, Norhayati, Daicus, and Jiang, 2010, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 56: 269.

Vibrissaphora boringii — Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 126.

Vibrissaphora boringiae — Michels and Bauer, 2004, Bonn. Zool. Beitr., 52: 86. Unjustified emendation according to Dubois, 2007, Zootaxa, 1550: 67.

Leptobrachium boringiae — Rao and Wilkinson, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 46: 69.

English Names

Taosze Spiny Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 87).

Emei Moustache Toad (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 7948).

Distribution

Mount Emei and Junlian in Sichuan Province, Jiangkou and Yinjiang in Guizhou Province, and Singzhi in Hunan Province, China, 600-1700 m elevation.

Comment

Discussed (as Vibrissaphora boringi) by Liu, Hu, and Zhao, 1980, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, Chengdu, 3 (1): 1-9, Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 100-103, and Liu, 1950, Fieldiana, Zool. Mem., 2: 176-180. See account by Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China 151. See Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 131, for nomenclatural note. Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 94-95, provided a brief account, map, and figure. Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 136, provided a brief account and illustration. In the Vibrissaphora boringii group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 70. Brandon-Jones, Duckworth, Jenkins, Rylands, and Sarmiento, 2007, Zootaxa, 1541: 41-48, discussed the nomenclatural principles that prevent boringii from being emendable to boringiae. Yang, 2008, in Yang and Rao (ed.), Amph. Rept. Yunnan: 22-24, provided a brief account for Yunnan, China. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 443. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 273-278, provided an account, a spot map, and an illustration. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 162-163, provided a brief account including photographs of specimens and habitat.

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