Incilius mccoyi Santos-Barrera and Flores-Villela, 2011
Incilius mccoyi Santos-Barrera and Flores-Villela, 2011, J. Herpetol., 45: 211. Holotype: MZFC 9935, by original designation. Type locality: "42.5 km S of Creel, on the Creel-Huachochi road Chihuahua, Mexico. . . . . located at 27° 38′ 35″ N, 107° 48′ 21″ W, in pine-oak forest, 1,400-m elevation".
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Pine and pine-oak woodlands of southwestern Chihuahua and adjacent eastern Sonora, Mexico.
Comment
Confused with Incilius occidentalis prior to its naming according to the original publication. See comment under Incilius occidentalis. Mendelson, Mulcahy, Williams, and Sites, 2011, Zootaxa, 3138: 1-34, suggested that Incilius mccoyi is a members in an unnamed monophyletic group (the name Incilius alvarius group is availabe-DRF) that includes Incilius alvarius, Incilius occidentalis, Incilius mccoyi, and Incilius tacanensis.
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