Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Pedostibes tuberculosus Günther, 1876 "1875", Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1875: 576. Syntypes: BMNH 1947.2.22.70-71 (formerly 74.4.29.1375-1376), according to R.F. Inger in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 72. Type locality: "Malabar", South India. Biju, 2001, Occas. Publ. Indian Soc. Conserv. Biol., 1: 8, noted the imprecision of this type locality, which could be anywhere within the entire region of the Western Ghats.

Nectophryne tuberculosa — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 280.

English Names

Malabar Tree Toad (Daniel, 1963, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 60: 431; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 43; Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 64).

Warty Asian Tree Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 45).

Distribution

Maharashtra to Kerala in isolated montane rainforest localities in the Western Ghats, 300-1800 m elevation.

Comment

See brief accounts by Daniel, 1963, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 60: 431-432 (as Nectophryne tuberculosa), and Inger, Shaffer, Koshy, and Bakde, 1984, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 81: 409. See Biju, 2001, Occas. Publ. Indian Soc. Conserv. Biol., 1: 9, for statement of range. Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 54, and Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 32-33, provided brief accounts. Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 116-117, provided an account. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 202. See comments on life history and morphology by Dahanukar, Padhye, Salelkar, and Ghate, 2004, Sauria, Berlin, 26: 17-20, who suggested that this name covers more than one species.

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