Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Bufo granulosus Baird and Girard, 1852, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 6: 173. Holotype: USNM by original designation; USNM 2595 according to Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 70, and Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 33. Type locality: "between Indianola and San Antonio, Texas", USA; restricted to "San Antonio, Bexar County", Texas, USA, by Smith and Taylor, 1950, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 33: 360. Restricted to "Indianola, Calhoun County, Texas", USA, by Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 66. Preoccupied by Bufo granulosus Spix, 1824.

Bufo nebulifer Girard, 1854, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 7: 87. Replacement name for Bufo granulosus Baird and Girard, 1852.

Chilophryne nebulifera — Cope, 1862, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 14: 358.

Incilius nebulifer — Cope, 1863, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 15: 50.

Cranopsis nebulifer — 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 nebulifer — Frost, Grant, and Mendelson, 2006, Copeia, 2006: 558. by implication. Species name assumed to be a noun in apposition (Art. 31.2.2, 1999 Code)

Incilius nebulifer — Frost, Mendelson, and Pramuk, 2009, Copeia, 2009: 418-419. By implication.

English Names

Nebulous Toad (Yarrow, 1882, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 24: 23; Rhoads, 1895, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 47: 396; Strecker, 1915, Baylor Bull., 18: 52).

Gulf Coast Toad (as "Bufo valliceps": Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 66; Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 176; Conant, 1975, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am., Ed. 2: 311; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 11; Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 18; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 44; Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 11; Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 69; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 8).

Gulf Coast Toad (Frost, McDiarmid, and Mendelson, 2008, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 37:9; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 18; Frost, McDiarmid, Mendelson, and Green, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 16).

Coastal Plain Toad (Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 6).

Mexican Toad (as "Bufo valliceps": Wright and Wright, 1933, Handb. Frogs Toads U.S. Canada: x; Viosca, 1949, Pop. Sci. Bull., Louisiana Acad. Sci., 1: 10).

Distribution

Gulf coast of Mississippi west through East and Central Texas almost to the Big Bend region of that state; south through eastern Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas to central Veracruz, Mexico.

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Incilius valliceps by Mulcahy and Mendelson, 2000, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 17: 173, where it had been placed by Peters, 1863, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1863: 81; Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 319. See comment under Incilius valliceps. Mulcahy, Morrill, and Mendelson, 2006, J. Biogeograph., 33: 1889-1904, reported on the historical biogeographic relationship with Incilius valliceps. 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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