Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Rhinophrynus dorsalis Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 8: 758. Holotype: MNHNP 693, according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 17. By museum records now numbered as MNHNP 0.743. Type locality: "Vera-Cruz", Mexico.

Rhinophrynus rostratus Brocchi, 1877, Bull. Soc. Philomath., Paris, Ser. 7, 1: 196. Holotype: MNHNP 6335, according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 17. Type locality: "Tehuantepec, (Mexique)". Synonymy by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 329.

Rhinophryne rostratus — O'Shaughnessy, 1879, Zool. Rec., 14: 13.

English Names

Rhinophryne (Wood, 1863, Illust. Nat. Hist., 3: 175).

Burrowing Toad (Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 26; Cochran, 1961, Living Amph. World: 95; Lee, 2000, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Maya World: 53; Frost, McDiarmid, and Mendelson, 2008, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 37: 11; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 22; Frost, McDiarmid, Mendelson, and Green, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 21).

Mexican Burrowing Toad (Cochran, 1961, Living Amph. World: 95; Conant, 1975, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am., Ed. 2: 297; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 13; Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 28; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 114; Lee, 1996, Amph. Rept. Yucatan Peninsula: 54; Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 13; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 16; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 9).

Middle American Burrowing Toad (Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 45).

Cone-nosed Frog (Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 183).

Distribution

From the mouth of the Río Balsas (Michoacán, Mexico) in the west and extreme southern Texas (USA) in the north along the coastal plains of Mexico and Guatemala to extreme northwestern Honduras, on the Caribbean versant, and through El Salvador and Nicaragua to northwestern Costa Rica on the Pacific versant; also in the Río Grijalva Valley of Chiapas (Mexico).

Comment

Reviewed by Fouquette, 1969, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 78: 1-2. See also accounts by Lee, 1996, Amph. Rept. Yucatan Peninsula: 54-56, Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 45-46; Lee, 2000, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Maya World: 60-62; Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 183-184, and McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras: 497-499. Köhler, Vesely, and Greenbaum, 2005 "2006", Amph. Rept. El Salvador: 70-71, provided an account (for El Salvador) and a color photograph. McCranie, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 38, summarized the departmental distribution in Honduras.

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