Anaxyrus houstonensis (Sanders, 1953)
Bufo houstonensis Sanders, 1953, Herpetologica, 9: 27. Holotype: UIMNH 33687, by original designation. Type locality: "Fairbanks, Harris Co[unty]., Texas", USA; corrected to "off Tanner Road, 1-2 mi. W of its junction with Campbell Road in northwest Houston", Harris Co., Texas, USA, by Brown, 1971, Southwest. Nat., 16: 195.
Bufo americanus houstonensis — Blair, 1957, in Blair et al. (eds.), Vert. U.S.: 250.
Bufo houstonensis — Brown, 1971, Southwest. Nat., 16: 185-199.
Anaxyrus houstonensis — 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
Houston Toad (Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 176; Conant, 1975, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am., Ed. 2: 308; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 10; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 42; Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 11; USFWS; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 7; Frost, McDiarmid, and Mendelson, 2008, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 37: 4; 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: 13).
Distribution
Southeast-central Texas, USA, in isolated populations.
Comment
Reviewed by Brown, 1973, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 133: 1-2. In the Bufo americanus group according to Blair, 1959, Texas J. Sci., 11: 427. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Bufo houstonensis) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 185.
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