Duttaphrynus sumatranus (Peters, 1871)
Bufo sumatranus Peters, 1871, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1871: 648. Holotype: ZMB 6292 according to Bauer, Günther, and Klipfel, 1995, in Bauer et al. (eds.), Herpetol. Contr. W.C.H. Peters: 40. Type locality: "inneren [= central] Sumatra", Indonesia.
"Bufo" sumatranus — 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 sumatranus — Van Bocxlaer, Biju, Loader, and Bossuyt, 2009, BMC Evol. Biol., 9 (e131): 1-10.
English Names
Sumatra Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 43).
Distribution
Known only from the vicinity of Lubuk Selasi, Sumatra, Indonesia.
Comment
Dubois and Ohler, 1999, J. South Asian Nat. Hist., 4: 170, provisionally allocated this species to the Bufo stomaticus group. See identification table by Manthey and Grossmann, 1997, Amph. Rept. Südostasiens: 26, to compare this species with others in the Sunda Shelf region. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Bufo sumatranus) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 192.
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