Scutiger tuberculatus Liu and Fei, 1979
Scutiger tuberculatus Liu and Fei In Liu, Hu, and Fei, 1979, Acta Zootaxon. Sinica, 4: 89. Holotype: CIB 65II0448, by original designation. Type locality: "Pu-xiong of Yuexi-Xian, Sichuan, altitude 3000 m", China.
Scutiger (Aelurophryne) tuberculatus — Fei, Ye, and Li, 1989, Acta Zool. Sinica, 35: 387. Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean, and Ohler, 2006, Alytes, 24: 13.
English Names
Bumpy Lazy Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 87).
Round-tubercled Cat-eyed Toad (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 88).
Distribution
Southwestern Sichuan and adjacent Yunnan, China, 2600-3750 m elevation.
Comment
Related to Scutiger glandulatus, according to the original publication. See accounts by Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China 143, and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 88-89. Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 130-131, provided a brief account and illustration. See also brief account by Zhao and Yang, 1997, Amph. Rept. Hengduan Mountains Region: 67-68. In the Scutiger (Aelurophryne) glandulatus group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 66. 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: 241-246, provided an account and spot map. See comment under Scutiger mammatus. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 140-141, provided a brief account including photographs of specimens and habitat.
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