Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Megalophrys hasseltii var. pullus Smith, 1921, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1921: 440. Syntypes: BMNH 1921.5.5.29 (formerly M. Smith No. 2103), 1921.5.5.30 (formerly M. Smith No. 2105), 1921.5.5.31 (formerly M. Smith No. 2108), BMNH 1921.5.32-33 (formerly M. Smith No. 2090-91), 1921.5.5.34 (formerly M. Smith no. 2093), 1921.5.5.35 (formerly M. Smith No. 2101), 1921.5.5.36 (formerly M. Smith No. 5192)). One specimen in FMNH regarded as a "cotype" by Marx, 1976, Fieldiana, Zool., 69: 57. BMNH 1921.5.5.36 designated lectotype by Matsui, Nabhitabhata, and Panha, 1999, Japan. J. Herpetol., 18: 22. Type locality: "southern Annam", Vietnam; given as Arbre Broye, east of Da Lat, Lang Bian Plateau, Lam Dong Province, Vietnam by Dubois and Ohler, 1998, Dumerilia, 4: 25.

Megophrys hasseltii pullus — Bourret, 1939, Annexe Bull. Gen. Instr. Publique, Hanoi, 1939: 58.

Leptobrachium hasseltii pullus — Taylor, 1962, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 43: 316. Inger, 1966, Fieldiana, Zool., 52: 32.

Leptobrachium (Leptobrachium) pullum — Inger, 1983, in Rhodin and Miyata (eds.), Adv. Herpetol. Evol. Biol.: 16. Dubois, 1983, Alytes, 2: 147-153; Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean, and Ohler, 2006, Alytes, 24: 12.

Leptobrachium (Vibrissaphora) pullum — Matsui, Hamidy, Murphy, Khonsue, Yambun, Shimada, Norhayati, Daicus, and Jiang, 2010, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 56: 269.

English Names

Vietnam Spadefoot Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 86; Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 12).

Distribution

Thailand (Chumphon, Loei, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Phangnga, Prachuap Khiri Khan, Trang) and northern Vietnam (Gai Lai and Lam Dong provinces); presumably in intervening Laos.

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Leptobrachium hasseltii by Inger, 1983, in Rhodin and Miyata (eds.), Adv. Herpetol. Evol. Biol.: 16. See Dubois and Ohler, 1998, Dumerilia, 4: 25-26. See comments by Inger, Orlov, and Darevsky, 1999, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S.,, 92: 4. See account by Matsui, Nabhitabhata, and Panha, 1999, Japan. J. Herpetol., 18: 19-29. See brief account and photo by Manthey and Grossmann, 1997, Amph. Rept. Südostasiens: 74-75. Stuart, 2005, Herpetol. Rev., 36: 474, noted that the report for Laos by Stuart, 1999, in Duckworth et al. (eds.), Wildlife in Lao PDR: 44, was based on specimens of Leptobrachium chapaense. Stuart, Rowley, Tran, Le, and Hoang, 2011, Zootaxa, 2804: 25-40, discussed the species and its distinctiveness from Leptobrachium leucops. See comment under Leptobrachium mouhoti. Wogan, 2012, Zootaxa, 3415: 33, noted that previous record of Leptobrachium pullum from Myanmar (Karin, Pego, Taninthari) are not referrable to this species.

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