Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Bufo claviger Peters, 1863, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1863: 405. Syntypes: ZMB 37322 and 4863 according to Bauer, Günther, and Klipfel, 1995, in Bauer et al. (eds.), Herpetol. Contr. W.C.H. Peters: 40, and (according to Marx, 1958, Fieldiana, Zool., 36: 427) FMNH 73840; Marx, 1958, Fieldiana, Zool., 36: 427, mentioned a "lectotype in ZMB" but did not cite a specimen; ZMB 4863 designated lectotype by Bauer, Günther, and Klipfel, 1995, in Bauer et al. (eds.), Herpetol. Contr. W.C.H. Peters: 40. Type locality: "Benkulen [= Bengkulu] auf Sumatra", Indonesia.

Ingerophrynus claviger — 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: 365.

English Names

Benkulen Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 41).

Distribution

Nias I. and northern Bengkulu Province at low elevations, Sumatra, Indonesia.

Comment

Related to Ingerophrynus biporcatus (as Bufo) according to Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 312. In the former Bufo biporcatus group of Inger, 1972, in Blair (ed.), Evol. Genus Bufo: 107. See identification table by Manthey and Grossmann, 1997, Amph. Rept. Südostasiens: 26, to compare this species with others in the Sunda Shelf region (as Bufo). See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Bufo claviger) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 181, who questioned the Nias I. record.

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