Oreolalax major (Liu and Hu, 1960)
Scutiger major Liu and Hu, 1960, Scient. Sinica, 9: 764. Holotype: CIB 570952, by original designation. Type locality: "Mt. Omei [= Mount Emei] (2000 m altitude), Szechwan [=Sichuan]", China.
Scutiger (Oreolalax) major — Dubois, 1980, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 49: 480.
Oreolalax major — Tian, Jiang, Wu, Hu, Zhao, and Huang, 1986, Handb. Chinese Amph. Rept.: 56. Fei, Ye, and Li, 1989, Acta Zool. Sinica, 35: 387; Fu, Lathrop, and Murphy, 1997, Asiat. Herpetol. Res., 7: 32-37; Fu and Murphy, 1997, Asiat. Herpetol. Res., 7: 38-43; Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean, and Ohler, 2006, Alytes, 24: 12.
English Names
Common Lazy Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 86).
Large Toothed Toad (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 66).
Distribution
Mount Omei in Sichuan to Hengduanshan Mountains of southern Yunnan, China, 1200-2150 m elevation.
Comment
Related to Scutiger popei according to the original publication. See Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 77-80, Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 66, and Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 106. See also brief account by Zhao and Yang, 1997, Amph. Rept. Hengduan Mountains Region: 51-52. In the Oreolalax weigoldi group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 58, and Wei, Li, Xu, and Jiang, 2007, Chinese J. Zool., 42: 169-173. 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: 439. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 115-119, provided an account, spot map, and illustration. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 116-117, provided a brief account including photographs of specimens and habitat.
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