Bufo pageoti Bourret, 1937
Bufo pageoti Bourret, 1937, Annexe Bull. Gen. Instr. Publique, Hanoi, 1937: 9. Holotype: MNHNP 1948.125 (formerly LZUH B-145), according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 14. Type locality: "Fan-Si-Pan (2500 m)", Lao Cai Province, Vietnam.
Bufo burmanus Andersson, 1939 "1938", Ark. Zool., 30(23): 6. Syntypes: NHMG (5 specimens), by original designation; NHMG 1862.1 designated lectotype by Dubois and Ohler, 1999, J. South Asian Nat. Hist., 4: 163. Type locality: "Kambaiti", northeastern Myanmar; elsewhere in the publication noted as "surrounding of the little village of Kambaiti, situated in N. East Burma near the border of China in a highland 2,000 m above the sea level". Synonymy by Dubois and Ohler, 1999, J. South Asian Nat. Hist., 4: 162.
Bufo burmanus — Liu, Lathrop, Fu, Yang, and Murphy, 2000, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 14: 433.
Phrynoidis burmanus — Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 95.
"Bufo" pageoti — 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 burmanus — Yang, 2008, in Yang and Rao (ed.), Amph. Rept. Yunnan: 56.
Torrentophryne pageoti — Yang, 2008, in Yang and Rao (ed.), Amph. Rept. Yunnan: 61.
Bufo (Bufo) pageoti — Dubois and Bour, 2010, Zootaxa, 2447: 24.
English Names
Tonkin Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 43).
Burma Toad (Bufo burmanus [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 40).
Burman Toad (Bufo burmanus [no longer recognized]: Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 126).
Distribution
Mountains of northeasterrn Myanmar and southern Yunnan, China; northern montane Vietnam (Lao Cai, Nghe An, Ha Tinh, and Quang Nam provinces), 1900-2500 m elevation.
Comment
See account by Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 170-172, and Dubois and Ohler, 1999, J. South Asian Nat. Hist., 4: 133-180 (who placed it in their Bufo stejnegeri group). See comment under Bufo burmanus. Liu, Lathrop, Fu, Yang, and Murphy, 2000, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 14: 433, noted that Bufo pageoti is most closely related to species formerly placed in Torrentophryne. Bufo burmanus was placed in the Bufo melanostictus group according to Inger in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 38, this disputed by Dubois and Ohler, 1999, J. South Asian Nat. Hist., 4: 136. Subsequently Bufo burmanus was placed in the Bufo cryptotympanus group (= Bufo stejnegeri group of Dubois and Ohler, 1999, J. South Asian Nat. Hist., 4: 133-180) according to Hu, Jiang, and Tian, 1984, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, Chengdu, N.S.,, 3 (1): 77-85. It may well be that Bufo pageoti is yet another species of the Torrentophryne group. Yang, 1991, Amph. Fauna of Yunnan: 97-98, and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 126-127, provided a brief account, figure, and map. 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 either, 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: 56-57, provided a brief account (as Torrentophryne burmanus) for Yunnan, China. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 611. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 580-585, provided an account (as Torrentophryne burmana) and spot map. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 208-209, provided a brief account (as Torrentophryne burmanus) including photographs.
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