Incilius luetkenii (Boulenger, 1891)
Bufo luetkenii Boulenger, 1891, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, 8: 455. Syntypes: BMNH 1947.2.21.67 (formerly 91.6.17.2) + 2 ZMUC, according to M.S. Hoogmoed in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 52. Type locality: "Cartago, Costa Rica"; type locality considered erroneous by Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 84, and Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 209.
Cranopsis luetkenii — 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.
Ollotis luetkeni — Frost, Grant, and Mendelson, 2006, Copeia, 2006: 558. by implication.
Ollotis leutkeni — Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 18. Incorrect subsequent spelling.
Incilius luetkeni — Frost, Mendelson, and Pramuk, 2009, Copeia, 2009: 418-419. By implication.
English Names
Yellow Toad (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 17; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 42; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 18).
Distribution
Low elevations along the Pacific versant from central Costa Rica to extreme southern Chiapas, Mexico, in the vicinity of Tapachula; dry interior valleys of Guatemala and Honduras and Río San Juan drainage in Costa Rica.
Comment
In the former Bufo valliceps group of Martin, 1972, in Blair (ed.), Evol. Genus Bufo: 49. Erroneously included within Incilius valliceps (as Bufo valliceps) by Porter, 1970, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 94: 1. All of Porter's records for southeastern Guatemala, El Salvador, western Nicaragua, and northwestern Costa Rica are based on this species (J.M. Savage In Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 52). See Taylor, 1952, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 35: 615-616, for account. See accounts by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 208-209 (who included Mexico in the range and noted confusion with Incilius valliceps in the literature), and McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras: 184-187. Köhler, Vesely, and Greenbaum, 2005 "2006", Amph. Rept. El Salvador: 29-31, provided an account (as Bufo luetkeni, and for El Salvador) and a color photograph. McCranie, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 38, summarized the departmental distribution in Honduras. Mendelson, Mulcahy, Williams, and Sites, 2011, Zootaxa, 3138: 1-34, suggested that this species is a member of a monophyletic Incilius valliceps group and in a subgroup they referred to as the Lowland group (the name Incilius valliceps subgroup is available—DRF) that includes Incilius gemmifer, Incilius luetkeni, Incilius mazatlanensis, Incilius nebulifer, and Incilius valliceps.
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