Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Bufo ailaoanus Kou, 1984, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, Chengdu, N.S.,, 3 (4): 40. Holotype: YU A828025, by original designation. Type locality: "Ejia, Shuangbai County, Yunnan [Province], alt. 2,600 m", China.

"Bufo" ailaoanus — 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: 364. Excluded from Bufo and unassigned to genus.

Torrentophryne ailaoanus — Yang, 2008, in Yang and Rao (ed.), Amph. Rept. Yunnan: 53.

Bufo (Bufo) ailaoanus — Dubois and Bour, 2010, Zootaxa, 2447: 24.

English Names

Ejia Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 40).

Ailao Toad (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 126).

Distribution

Ailao Shan Mountains, 2550-2600 m, Shuangbai County, central Yunnan, China.

Comment

Related to Bufo burmanus and Bufo cryptotympanicus according to the original publication. In the Bufo stejnegeri group of Dubois and Ohler, 1999, J. South Asian Nat. Hist., 4: 133-180. Yang, 1991, Amph. Fauna of Yunnan: 92-94, and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 126-127, provided brief accounts, figures, and maps. 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, suggested that this species is not a member of the monophyletic taxon Bufo (the former Bufo bufo group), but could not allocate this species to any of the other genera, instead leaving this species in a non-taxon "Bufo" which they denoted as polyphyletic by placing the name in quotation marks. Yang, 2008, in Yang and Rao (ed.), Amph. Rept. Yunnan: 53-54, provided a brief account (as Torrentophryne ailaoanus) for Yunnan, China. See comment under Bufo record regarding Torrentophryne. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 490-493, provided an account, illustration of the holotype, and spot map (as Bufo ailaoanus). Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 220, provided a brief account including photographs of specimens and habitat.

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