Duttaphrynus silentvalleyensis (Pillai, 1981)
Bufo silentvalleyensis Pillai, 1981, Bull. Zool. Surv. India, 3: 156. Type(s): Not stated but ZSI-SRS VA/777 is holotype according to Chanda, Das, and Dubois, 2001 "2000", Hamadryad, 25: 104. Type locality: "near Valiaparai Thodu, Silent Valley Forests, [Kerala,] S. India, Alt. 800 metres".
"Bufo" silentvalleyensis — 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 silentvalleyensis — Van Bocxlaer, Biju, Loader, and Bossuyt, 2009, BMC Evol. Biol., 9 (e131): 1-10.
English Names
Silent Valley Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 43; Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 63).
South Indian Hill Toad (Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 27).
Distribution
Known only from the type locality (near Valiaparai, Thodu, Kerala, India).
Comment
Dubois and Ohler, 1999, J. South Asian Nat. Hist., 4: 166, suggested that this taxon is a likely synonym of Bufo parietalis and they placed it in their Bufo scaber group. Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 27, provided a brief account.
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