Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Bufo bankorensis Barbour, 1908, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 51: 323. Syntypes: MCZ 2432 (2 specimens), by original designation. Type locality: "Bankoro, Central Formosa", Taiwan, China.

Bufo bufo bankorensis — Liu, 1936, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 22: 127. Boring, 1938 "1938-1939", Peking Nat. Hist. Bull., 13: 91; by implication of her statement that Bufo bankorensis is "part" of Bufo bufo.

Bufo bankorensis — Matsui, 1980, Annot. Zool. Japon., 53: 56.

Bufo japonicus bankorensis — Nishioka, Sumida, Ueda, and Wu, 1990, Sci. Rep. Lab. Amph. Biol. Hiroshima Univ., 10: 53.

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

English Names

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

Bankor Toad (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 132).

Distribution

Taiwan, China, 0-2700 m elevation.

Comment

In the Bufo bufo group of Inger, 1972, in Blair (ed.), Evol. Genus Bufo: 107. Revived tentatively from synonymy of Bufo bufo by Matsui, 1980, Annot. Zool. Japon., 53: 56, Matsui, 1986, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, Chengdu, N.S.,, 5 (1): 48, and Matsui, 1986, Copeia, 1986: 561-579, where it had been placed by Boring, 1938 "1938-1939", Peking Nat. Hist. Bull., 13: 91, and Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 118 (under Bufo bufo gargarizans). See account by Pope, 1931, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 61: 457. Nishioka, Sumida, Ueda, and Wu, 1990, Sci. Rep. Lab. Amph. Biol. Hiroshima Univ., 10: 53-91, considered bankorensis to be one of three subspecies (the others being Bufo japonicus gargarizans, Bufo japonicus miyakonis) that differed electrophoretically significantly between each other and the remaining populations of Bufo japonicus. This phylogenetic arrangement was supported by mtDNA studes of Igawa, Kurabayashi, Nishioka, and Sumida, 2006, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 38: 250-260, and they regarded Bufo bankorensis (of Taiwan), Bufo gargarizans (of mainland China) as distinct. Liu, Lathrop, Fu, Yang, and Murphy, 2000, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 14: 433, suggested tha Bufo bankorensis was not distinct from Bufo gargarizans, although their data did not support the analytic "monophyly" of Bufo gargarizans. Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 132-133, provided a brief account, figure, and map. Lue, Tu, and Hsiang, 1999, Atlas Taiwan Amph. Rept.: 28-29; provided a brief account. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 518-522, provided an account and a spot map. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 221, provided a brief account including photographs.

External Links

Please note: these links will take you to external websites not affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History. We are not responsible for their content.

• For additional sources of information from other sites search Google
• For images search Arkive, CalPhoto Images and Google Images
• To search the NIH genetic sequence database, see GenBank
• For information aggregation from other sites and some original accounts see AmphibiaWeb report
• For further information on conservation status and distribution see the IUCN Redlist
• For related information on conservation and images as well as observation see iNaturalist;
• for a quick link to their maps see iNaturalist KML