Incilius marmoreus (Wiegmann, 1833)
Bufo marmoreus Wiegmann, 1833, Isis von Oken, 26: 661. Syntypes: ZMB 3529-31, according to Peters, 1863, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1863: 81. Type locality: "mexicanischen"; rendered as "Vera Cruz", Veracruz, Mexico, by Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 58, who reported the jar labels.
Bufo argillaceus Cope, 1868, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 20: 138. Syntypes: USNM 27763-64 according to Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 58, and Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 31. Type locality: "Colima, Western Mexico". Restricted to "Colima", Colima, Mexico by Smith and Taylor, 1950, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 33: 328. Synonymy by Günther, 1901, Biol. Centr. Amer., Rept. Batr., Part 162: 246; Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 130.
Bufo marmoratus — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 281. Incorrect subsequent spelling.
Bufo lateralis Werner, 1894, Zool. Anz., 17: 156. Holotype: Not stated; NHMW 22865, according to Häupl and Tiedemann, 1978, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 2: 14, and Häupl, Tiedemann, and Grillitsch, 1994, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 9: 18. Type locality: "Tehuantepec", Oaxaca, Mexico. Provisionally considered a synonym of Bufo canaliferus by Boulenger, 1895, Zool. Rec., 31: 40. Synonymy by Günther, 1901, Biol. Centr. Amer., Rept. Batr., Part 162: 246; Smith and Taylor, 1948, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 194: 45.
Bufo eiteli Ahl, 1927 "1926", Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1926: 111-112. Holotype: ZMB unnumber in the original publication. Type locality: "Puerto Mexico" (near Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz), Veracruz, Mexico. Tentative synonymy by Gorham, 1974, Checklist World Amph.: 82.
Cranopsis marmorea — 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 marmorea — Frost, Grant, and Mendelson, 2006, Copeia, 2006: 558. by implication.
Incilius marmoreus — Frost, Mendelson, and Pramuk, 2009, Copeia, 2009: 418-419. By implication.
English Names
Wiegmann's Toad (Cochran, 1961, Living Amph. World: 104; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 40).
Marbled Toad (Cochran, 1961, Living Amph. World: 82; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 40; 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
From northern Sinaloa to Chiapas along the Pacific coastal plain; an isolated population in the region of the city of Veracruz on the Atlantic coast, Mexico.
Comment
In the former Bufo marmoreus group of Martin, 1972, in Blair (ed.), Evol. Genus Bufo: 51. See account by Hardy and McDiarmid, 1969, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 18: 81-82. Mendelson, Mulcahy, Williams, and Sites, 2011, Zootaxa, 3138: 1-34, suggested that Incilius canaliferus is a members in an unnamed monophyletic group (the name Incilius marmoreus group is availabe-DRF) that includes Incilius canaliferus, Incilius marmoreus, and Incilius perplexus.
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