Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Scaphiopus hammondii Baird, 1859 "1857", Rep. Upon Explor Surv. Route Railroad Mississippi-Pacific Ocean, 10 (Part 4, No. 4): 12. Holotype: USNM 3695, by original designation but not there now. Type locality: "Fort Reading,, California", USA.

Spea hammondii — Cope, 1866, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 6: 81.

Spea hammondii hammondii — Cope, 1889, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 34: 303. Tanner, 1989, Great Basin Nat., 49: 57.

Scaphiopus hammondii hammondii — Grinnell and Camp, 1917, Univ. California Publ. Zool., 17: 140. Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 59.

Scaphiopus (Spea) hammondii — Tanner, 1939, Great Basin Nat., 1: 12. Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 130.

Spea hammondii — Wiens and Titus, 1991, Herpetologica, 47: 21-28.

English Names

Hammond's Spea (Yarrow, 1882, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 24: 24).

Hammond's Spadefoot Toad (Tanner, 1939, Great Basin Nat., 1: 16).

Hammond Spadefoot (Stebbins, 1951, Amph. W. North Am.: 207).

Hammond's Spadefoot (Wright and Wright, 1933, Handb. Frogs Toads U.S. Canada: ix; Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 57; Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 177).

Western Spadefoot (Dickerson, 1906, The Frog Book: 59; Strecker, 1915, Baylor Bull., 18: 54; Grinnell and Storer, 1924, Animal Life in the Yosemite: 654; Storer, 1925, Univ. California Publ. Zool., 27: 43; Slevin, 1928, Occas. Pap. California Acad. Sci., 16: 84; Stebbins, 1966, Field Guide W. North Am. Rept. Amph.: 57; Conant, 1975, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am., Ed. 2: 301; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 13; Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 29; Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 14; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 16; Stebbins, 2003, Field Guide W. Rept. Amph., Ed. 3: 203; Frost, McDiarmid, and Mendelson, 2008, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 37: 12; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 23; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 9; Frost, McDiarmid, Mendelson, and Green, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 22).

Western Spadefoot Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 96).

Distribution

Western California (USA) and northwestern Baja California (Mexico).

Comment

See comment under Spea multiplicatus. Grismer, 2002, Amph. Rept. Baja California: 84-85, provided an account for the Mexican population. Stebbins, 2003, Field Guide W. Rept. Amph., Ed. 3: 203-204, provided a brief account, figure, and map (and who commented on the disappearance of this species from large areas of its former distribution).

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