Ingerophrynus macrotis (Boulenger, 1887)
Bufo macrotis Boulenger, 1887, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, Ser. 2, 5: 422. Syntypes: BMNH 1947.2.21.15-16 (formerly 89.3.25.52-53; according to R.F. Inger in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 52), NHMW 16555 (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), MZUT An235 (according to Gavetti and Andreone, 1993, Cat. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat., Torino, 10: 63), and MSNG (10 specimens); MSNG 29616 designated lectotype by Capocaccia, 1957, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, Ser. 3, 69: 212. Type locality: "Bhamò; Teinzò, and Me-tan-jà in the Kakhien Hills", Myanmar; restricted to Teinzò, Myanmar, by lectotype designation.
Ingerophrynus macrotis — 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
Big-eared Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 42).
Flat-headed Toad (Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 90).
Big-eyed Toad (Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 12).
Distribution
Arunachal Pradesh (northeastern India) and Myanmar throughout much of Thailand through Laos to the central highlands of Vietnam and southwestern Cambodia to northern Malaya; possibly into adjacent Yunnan, China.
Comment
See Taylor, 1962, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 43: 324-326, Berry, 1975, Amph. Fauna Peninsular Malaysia: 48, and Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 169-170, for accounts. See Inger, Orlov, and Darevsky, 1999, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S., 92: 10-11, for Vietnam record. Dubois and Ohler, 1999, J. South Asian Nat. Hist., 4: 170, suggested that this species is closely related to Bufo parvus in the Bufo biporcatus group. See brief account and photo by Manthey and Grossmann, 1997, Amph. Rept. Südostasiens: 32-33. Reported for southwestern Cambodia by Ohler, Swan, and Daltry, 2002, Raffles Bull. Zool., 50: 465-481. IUCN, Conservation International, and NatureServe, 2004, Global Amph. Assessment, reported the species in Assam and Arunchal Pradesh, India, but Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 173, provided a range, systematic comments including doubting the identification of Indian specimens, and partial taxonomic bibliography. Borah and Bordoloi, 2001, Zoos' Print J., 16: 574, and Sarkar and Ray, 2006, In Alfred (ed.), Fauna of Arunachal Pradesh, Part 1: 290, reported the species from Arunachal Pradesh, India. Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 90-91, provided a very brief account, map for Thailand, and photograph. Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 17, provided specific localities for Vietnam. Stuart, 2005, Herpetol. Rev., 36: 475, provided records for Laos. Bain, Nguyen, and Doan, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 107, provided a record from Thua Thien-Hue Province, Vietnam, and briefly discussed the distribution. Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 12-13, provided a brief characterization and photograph for Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India.
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