Xenophrys boettgeri (Boulenger, 1899)
Leptobrachium boettgeri Boulenger, 1899, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1899: 171. Syntypes: BMNH (5 specimens), MCZ 3790 (on exchange from BMNH according to Barbour and Loveridge, 1929, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 69: 292). Type locality: "Kuatun, a village about 270 miles from Foochow, in the mountains at the North-west of the Province of Fokien [= Fujian], at an altitude of 3000 to 4000 feet or more", China.
Megalophrys boettgeri — Boulenger, 1908, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1908: 420.
Megophrys boettgeri — Gee and Boring, 1929, Peking Nat. Hist. Bull., 4: 20. Pope, 1931, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 61: 438; Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 58.
Megophrys (Megophrys) boettgeri — Dubois, 1980, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 49: 472.
Panophrys boettgeri — Rao and Yang, 1997, Asiat. Herpetol. Res., 7: 98-99.
Megophrys (Xenophrys) boettgeri — Dubois and Ohler, 1998, Dumerilia, 4: 14.
Xenophrys boettgeri — Ohler, 2003, Alytes, 21: 23. by implication; Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean, and Ohler, 2006, Alytes, 24: 17.
English Names
Boettger's Spadefoot Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 86; Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 54).
Boettger's Pelobatid Toad (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 63).
Pale-shouldered Horned Toad (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 116; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 41).
Distribution
Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Anhui, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Shanxi, eastern Sichuan, and Hongkong, China; reported for Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, and Assam, northeastern India.
Comment
See Pope, 1931, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 61: 438-444; Chang, 1947, Trans. Chinese Assoc. Adv. Sci., 9: 89; Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 59; and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 116-117. Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 147, provided a brief account and illustration (as Megophrys boettgeri). Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 36, Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 9-11, and Sarkar and Ray, 2006, In Alfred (ed.), Fauna of Arunachal Pradesh, Part 1: 292, provided accounts for an Indian population referred to this otherwise southeastern Chinese species (as Megophrys boettgeri). Huang, 1990, Fauna Zhejiang, Amph. Rept.: 35-37, provided an account (as Megophrys boettgeri) for Zhejiang. Zhang and Wen, 2000, Amph. Guangxi: 49, provided an account (as Megophrys boettgeri) for Guangxi. Fan, Guo, and Liu, 1998, Amph. Rept. Shanxi Prov.: 47-49, provided an account for Shanxi. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 416-420, provided an account and spot map for China. Dai, Li, Zheng, Gong, and Liu, 2009, Sichuan J. Zool., 28: 291. provided a record for Hubei, China. Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 54, provided a brief characterization and photograph. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 184-185, provided a brief account (as Megophrys boettgeri) including photographs. Li, Zhao, and Dong, 2010, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 23, provided an account for Xenophrys kempii for Xizang, China, probably based on a population closely related to Xenophrys boettgeri; the problem is that the type of this nominal species is a "Philautus" (in some general sense) and the population in Xizang appears to lack a name (DRF).
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