Duttaphrynus scaber (Schneider, 1799)
Bufo scaber Schneider, 1799, Hist. Amph. Nat.: 222. Syntypes: "Musei Blochiani" (= ZMB); three specimens of which ZMB 3464 was considered holotype by Peters, 1863, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1863: 80, and which was designated lectotype by Dubois and Ohler, 1999, J. South Asian Nat. Hist., 4: 142, who redescribed the specimen. Type locality: "Orientali India". Senior homonym of Bufo scaber Daudin, 1802, and Bufo scaber Duméril and Bibron.
Bufo fergusonii Boulenger, 1892, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 7: 317. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.21.17 (formerly 92.6.9.3), according to R.F. Inger in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 44. Type locality: "Trevandrum on the Cavalry Parade Ground", Kerala, India. Synonymy by Dubois and Ohler, 1999, J. South Asian Nat. Hist., 4: 143.
"Bufo" scaber — 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 scaber — Van Bocxlaer, Biju, Loader, and Bossuyt, 2009, BMC Evol. Biol., 9 (e131): 4.
English Names
Schneider's Toad (Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 19).
Schneider's Dwarf Toad (De Silva, 2009, Amph. Rep. Sri Lanka Photograph. Guide: 64).
Ferguson's Toad (Bufo fergusonii [no longer recognized]: Daniel, 1963, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 60: 434; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 38; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 41; Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 63).
Boulenger's Burrowing Toad (Bufo fergusonii [no longer recognized]: Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 20).
Distribution
Sri Lanka and peninsular India (including Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu) north to Orissa; an isolated record in Manipur in northeastern India.
Comment
In the Bufo stomaticus group of Inger, 1972, in Blair (ed.), Evol. Genus Bufo: 107. See De Silva, 1955, Spolia Zeylan., 27: 251-253; Bogert and Senanayake, 1966, Am. Mus. Novit., 2269: 1-18; Kirtisinghe, 1957, Amph. Ceylon: 22-24; and Dutta and Manamendra-Arachchi, 1996, Amph. Fauna Sri Lanka: 62-63. See comment under Bufo atukoralei. See Donahue and Daniel, 1967 "1966", J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 63: 447, for northeastern India record and Daniel, 1963, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 60: 434, for brief account (as Bufo fergusonii). Dubois and Ohler, 1999, J. South Asian Nat. Hist., 4: 133-180, discussed the nomenclature of this taxon (and related ones) and included it in a restricted Bufo scaber group. Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 21-23, provided a brief account for the Indian population. Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 111-113, provided an account. Mathew and Sen, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 293: 21, provided a record for Manipur, northeastern India. Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 19-21, provided a brief characterization and photographs of a Manipur specimens. De Silva, 2009, Amph. Rep. Sri Lanka Photograph. Guide: 64, provided a brief account (as Bufo scaber) and color photograph.
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