Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Bufo gundlachi Ruibal, 1959, Breviora, 105: 2. Holotype: MCZ 30551, by original designation. Type locality: "about 14 kilometers N.E. of the city of Camagüey, Provincia de Camagüey, Cuba".

Peltophryne gundlachi — Pregill, 1981, Copeia, 1981: 273. 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.

Bufo gundlachi — Hedges, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 100. by implication; Pramuk, 2000, J. Herpetol., 34: 334.

English Names

Gundlach's Caribbean Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 45).

Cuban High-crested Toad (Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 184).

Distribution

Cuba; known from the plains in all provinces but in Granma Province apparently only in the extreme southwest; Isla de Pinos (= Isla de Juventud).

Comment

Pramuk, 2002, Herpetol. Monogr., 16: 121-151, reported on the phylogenetic relationships of this species, suggesting it to most closely related to Bufo longinasus. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Bufo gundlachi) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 184. Díaz and Cadíz, 2008, Guía Taxon. Anf. Cuba, 4: 1-294, provided an account, as Bufo gundlachi.

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