Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Scutiger omeimontis Liu and Hu, 1960, Scient. Sinica, 9: 767. Holotype: CIB 57065, by original designation. Type locality: "Mt. Omei, Szechwan [= Sichuan] . . . . Changshingkao", China.

Oreolalax omeimontis — Sichuan Biological Research Institute, 1977, Syst. Key Chinese Amph.: 31. Tian, Jiang, Wu, Hu, Zhao, and Huang, 1986, Handb. Chinese Amph. Rept.: 55; Fei, Ye, and Li, 1989, Acta Zool. Sinica, 35: 387; Inger, Zhao, Shaffer, and Wu, 1990, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S.,, 58: 6; Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 122; 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

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

Omei Toothed Toad (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 70-71).

Distribution

Emei and Hongya counties in central Sichuan, China, 1050-1800 m elevation.

Comment

Related to Scutiger schmidti according to the original publication. See Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 80-82; and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 74-75. Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 115, also provided a brief account and illustration. In the Oreolalax pingii group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 58. In the more exclusive Oreolalax omeimontis group of 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: 440. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 146-150, provided an account, spot map, and illustration of the holotype. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 120, provided a brief account including photographs.

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