Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Scutiger schmidti Liu, 1947, Copeia, 1947: 123. Holotype: CIB (formerly Liu Coll.) 156 by original designation. Type locality: "Mt. Omei, Szechwan [= Sichuan]; 7800 feet altitude", China.

Oreolalax schmidti — Myers and Leviton, 1962, Copeia, 1962: 289. Tian, Jiang, Wu, Hu, Zhao, and Huang, 1986, Handb. Chinese Amph. Rept.: 55; Fei, Ye, and Li, 1989, Acta Zool. Sinica, 35: 387; Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 122; Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean, and Ohler, 2006, Alytes, 24: 13.

Scutiger (Oreolalax) schmidti — Dubois, 1980, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 49: 480. Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 15.

English Names

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

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

Distribution

Western Sichuan and Hengduanshan Mountains of Yunnan, China, 1700-2550 m elevation; possibly into adjacent Vietnam and Laos.

Comment

See Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 85-87; Liu, 1950, Fieldiana, Zool. Mem., 2: 162-168; and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 70. See comment under Oreolalax puxiongensis. Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 111, provided a brief account and illustration. See also brief account by Zhao and Yang, 1997, Amph. Rept. Hengduan Mountains Region: 56-57. In the Oreolalax pingii 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 statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 625. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 134-138, provided an account, spot map, and illustration of the holotype. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 130-131, provided a brief account including photographs of specimens and habitat.

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