Xenophrys omeimontis (Liu, 1950)
Megophrys omeimontis Liu, 1950, Fieldiana, Zool. Mem., 2: 191. Holoype: FMNH 49406, by original designation. Type locality: "Mount Omei [= Emei], Szechwan [=Sichuan], altitude 3,600 feet", China.
Megophrys (Megophrys) omeimontis — Dubois, 1980, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 49: 472.
Megophrys omeimontis omeimontis —Fei and Ye In Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1983, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, Chengdu, N.S.,, 2 (2): 50. Panophrys omeimontis— Rao and Yang, 1997, Asiat. Herpetol. Res., 7: 98.
Megophrys (Xenophrys) omeimontis — Dubois and Ohler, 1998, Dumerilia, 4: 14.
Xenophrys omeimontis — Ohler, 2003, Alytes, 21: 23. by implication; Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean, and Ohler, 2006, Alytes, 24: 17.
English Names
Mount Omei Spadefoot Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 86).
Omei Horned Toad (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 112).
Omei Horned Toad (Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 625).
Distribution
Eastern Xizang and western Sichuan, China, 850-2060 m elevation.
Comment
Reviewed by Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 63-65, and Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1983, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, Chengdu, N.S.,, 2 (2): 49-52, both in the sense of including Xenophrys jingdongensis. See also Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 119-120, for distribution of subspecies and nomenclatural note. See accounts by Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 172, and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 112-113. Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 144-145, provided a brief account and illustration (as Megophrys omeimontis). In the Megophrys omeimontis group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 79. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 625 (in the sense of including Xenophrys jingdongensis). Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 395-400 (as Megophrys omeimontis), provided accounts and spot maps. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 202-203, provided a brief account (as Megophrys omeimontis) including photographs of specimens and habitat.
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