Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Bufo luristanicus Schmidt, 1952, Nat. Hist. Misc., 93: 1-2. Holotype: ZMUC Field No. 102, by original designation. Given as ZMUC R13221 by Schmidt, 1955, Vidensk. Medd. Dansk Naturhist. Foren., 117: 198, and this confirmed by museum records (pers. comm. H. Kristensen, 24 Nov. 2010). Type locality: "Shah Bazan [at km 324 of the Trans-Iranian railway], Luristan, Iran". Given as "52 km as the crow flies NE of Dizful", Iran, by Schmidt, 1955, Vidensk. Medd. Dansk Naturhist. Foren., 117: 198.

Bufo surdus luristanicus — Schmidtler and Schmidtler, 1969, Salamandra, 5: 118. Eiselt and Schmidtler, 1973, Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 77: 180.

Pseudepidalea luristanica — 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: 365.

Bufo (Pseudepidalea) luristanica — Rastegar-Pouyani, Kami, Rajabzadeh, and Shafiei, 2008, Iranian J. Animal Biosystem., 4: 44.

Bufo (Bufotes) luristanicus — Dubois and Bour, 2010, Zootaxa, 2447: 25. See comment under Bufotes record.

Bufotes luristanicus — Frost, 2013, Amph. Spec. World Online, vers. 5.6: . Required change because of non-monophyly of Bufo.

English Names

Lorestan Toad (Baloutch and Kami, 1995, Amph. Iran: 137).

Distribution

Foothills of the Zagros Mountains in the provinces of Fars, Kuzestan, and Lorestan, Iran, 750-1200 m elevation.

Comment

In the Bufo viridis group of Inger, 1972, in Blair (ed.), Evol. Genus Bufo, and the Bufo surdus subgroup of Stöck, Günther, and Böhme, 2001, Zool. Abh. Staatl. Mus. Tierkd. Dresden, 51: 262. Removed from the synonymy of Bufo surdus by Anderson, 1985, Encycl. Iranica, 1 (Fasc. 9): 987, and Stöck, Günther, and Böhme, 2001, Zool. Abh. Staatl. Mus. Tierkd. Dresden, 51: 268 (who provided an account), where it had been placed by Schmidtler and Schmidtler, 1969, Salamandra, 5: 118; and Eiselt and Schmidtler, 1973, Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 77: 181-243. Schmidt, 1955, Vidensk. Medd. Dansk Naturhist. Foren., 117: 198, provided a comprehensive morphological description; see also Stöck, Günther, and Böhme, 2001, Zool. Abh. Staatl. Mus. Tierkd. Dresden, 51: 267, who provided photographs of the holotype and a living specimen, as well as an extensive discussion. See maps by Eiselt and Schmidtler, 1973, Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 77: 187; Borkin, Rosanov, and Litvinchuk, 2001 "2000", Russ. J. Herpetol., 7: 172; Stöck, Günther, and Böhme, 2001, Zool. Abh. Staatl. Mus. Tierkd. Dresden, 51: 308, and Stöck, Frynta, Grosse, Steinlein, and Schmid, 2001, Asiat. Herpetol. Res., 9: App. I. Baloutch and Kami, 1995, Amph. Iran: 137-139, provided an account for Iran. Javari and Torki, 2009, Herpetozoa, 21: 171-178, discussed the morphological variation and habitat preference of this taxon, considering it to be a subspecies of Bufotes surdus (as Bufo) on the basis of morphology, but noting that molecular evidence suggested a species-level distinctiveness. Leviton, Anderson, Adler, and Minton, 1992, Handb. Middle East Amph. Rept.: 143-144, provided a brief account.

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