Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Bufo valhallae Meade-Waldo, 1909 "1908", Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1908: 786. Syntypes: "2 females"; BMNH 1909.9.6.1 plus 1 not traced according to R.F. Inger in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 63. Type locality: "Pulo Weh Island, off N. Sumatra", Indonesia.

"Bufo" valhallae — 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 valhallae — Van Bocxlaer, Biju, Loader, and Bossuyt, 2009, BMC Evol. Biol., 9 (e131): 1-10.

English Names

Pulo Weh Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 44).

Distribution

Known only from the type locality (Weh Island, Indonesia), off the north end of Sumatra.

Comment

Provisionally allocated to the Bufo stomaticus group by Dubois and Ohler, 1999, J. South Asian Nat. Hist., 4: 170. See identification table by Manthey and Grossmann, 1997, Amph. Rept. Südostasiens: 26, to compare this species with others in the Sunda Shelf region.

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