Anaxyrus canorus (Camp, 1916)
Bufo canorus Camp, 1916, Univ. California Publ. Zool., 17: 59. Holotype: MVZ 2129, by original designation. Type locality: "Porcupine Flat, 8100 feet, Yosemite National Park, Mariposa Co[unty]., California", USA.
Anaxyrus canorus — 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
Yosemite Toad (Grinnell and Storer, 1924, Animal Life in the Yosemite: 657; Stebbins, 1951, Amph. W. North Am.: 245; Wright and Wright, 1933, Handb. Frogs Toads U.S. Canada: ix; Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 62; Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 176; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 10; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 41; Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 11; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 7; Stebbins, 2003, Field Guide W. Rept. Amph., Ed. 3: 210; Frost, McDiarmid, and Mendelson, 2008, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 37: 3; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 6; Frost, McDiarmid, Mendelson, and Green, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 12).
Yosemite Park Toad (Storer, 1925, Univ. California Publ. Zool., 27: 43; Wright and Wright, 1933, Handb. Frogs Toads U.S. Canada: 56).).
Distribution
High elevations of the Sierra Nevada of California, USA, from Alpine County to Fresno County, 1460-3630 m elevation.
Comment
Reviewed by Karlstrom, 1973, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 132: 1-2. In the Bufo boreas group of Blair, 1972, Evol. Genus Bufo: 350. Shaffer, Fellers, Magee, and Voss, 2000, Mol. Ecol., 9: 245-257, reported on molecular geographic variation. Stebbins, 2003, Field Guide W. Rept. Amph., Ed. 3: 210-211, provided a brief account, figure, and map. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Bufo canorus) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 180, who noted that Anaxyrus exsul may be conspecific with this species. Goebel, Ranker, Corn, and Olmstead, 2009, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 50: 209-225, found the mtDNA haplotypes of Anayxrus canorus to form a polyphyletic group, with the name-bearing clade being imbedded within a clade of Anaxyrus boreas including most of that species' range and another clade related to a clade of Anaxyrus boreas centered on it's southwestern component of range.
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