Duttaphrynus kotagamai (Fernando and Dayawansa, 1994)
Bufo kotagamai Fernando and Dayawansa In Fernando, Dayawansa, and Siriwardhane, 1994, J. South Asian Nat. Hist., 1: 119-120. Holotype: USNM 311595 by original designation. Type locality: "Sri Lanka: Sinharaja Man and Biosphere Reserve, Hal Mandiya, 50 m from research station (6 25 N, 80 25 E)".
"Bufo" kotagamai — 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.
Duttaphrynus kotagamai — Van Bocxlaer, Biju, Loader, and Bossuyt, 2009, BMC Evol. Biol., 9 (e131): 1-10. By implication.
English Names
Kotagama's Toad (De Silva, 2009, Amph. Rep. Sri Lanka Photograph. Guide: 63).
Distribution
Known only from three localities in low montane rainforest habitats (Sinharaja Man and Biosphere Reserve; Makadawa Forest Reserve, Kitulgala; and Massana Forest Reserve near Ratnapura), southwest-central Sri Lanka below 1070 m elevation.
Comment
See accounts by Dutta and Manamendra-Arachchi, 1996, Amph. Fauna Sri Lanka: 75-51, and Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 47. In the Bufo scaber group of Dubois and Ohler, 1999, J. South Asian Nat. Hist., 4: 133-180. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Bufo kotagamai) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 186. De Silva, 2009, Amph. Rep. Sri Lanka Photograph. Guide: 63, provided a brief account (as Bufo kotagamai) and color photograph.
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