Amietophrynus blanfordii (Boulenger, 1882)
Bufo blanfordii Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 301. Syntypes: BMNH 69.11.4.22, 69.11.4.30-31, including animal figured on pl. 19, fig. 4 of the original publication. Type localities: "Ain Samhar" and "Sooroo", Ethiopia.
Bufo viridis somalacus Meek, 1897, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 1: 177. Syntypes: FMNH 419 and MCZ 19104-05 (on exchange from FMNH according to Barbour and Loveridge, 1946, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 96: 86). Marx, 1958, Fieldiana, Zool., 36: 430, regarded FMNH 419 as "Type", a lectotype designation by implication. Type locality: "Haili" (= Hialeh), Somalia. (Note: discussion in text of the type description of Phrynobatrachus hailiensis suggests that the true type locality could be anywhere within 20 miles of the stated type locality—DRF.) Synonymy by Boulenger, 1898, Zool. Rec., 34: 31; Boulenger, 1898, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, Ser. 2, 18: 716.
Bufo somalicus Calabresi, 1927, Atti Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Milano, 66: 18. Holotype: MZUF. Type locality: "Ehil", Somalia. Synonymy by Hulselmans, 1977, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 9: 139; Lanza, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 152.
Bufo sibiliai Scortecci, 1929, Atti Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Milano, 68: 186. Holotype: MSNM 589, but possibly now lost, according to Conci, 1967, Atti Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Milano, 106: 94. Type locality: "Regione Fil-Fil, presso Ghinda", Eritrea. Synonymy by Tandy and Keith, 1972, in Blair (ed.), Evol. Genus Bufo: 158.
Amietophrynus blanfordii — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 363.
English Names
Blanford's Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 40).
Ethiopia Toad (Bufo sibiliai [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 43).
Distribution
Eritrea, Djibouti, extreme northern Ethiopia and northern Somalia.
Comment
In the Bufo blanfordii group of Tandy and Keith, 1972, in Blair (ed.), Evol. Genus Bufo: 158. Discussed by Tandy and Feener, 1985, in Schuchmann (ed.), Proc. Internatl. Symp Afr. Vert.: 549-585. See Largen, 2001, Tropical Zool., 14: 315, for comments on habitat and distribution. See account (as Bufo blanfordii), photograph, and map for Ethiopia and Eritrea by Largen and Spawls, 2010, Amph. Rept. Ethiopia Eritrea: 91.
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