Peltophryne lemur Cope, 1869
Peltaphryne lemur Cope, 1869 "1868", Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 20: 311. Holotype: USNM, not located and presumed lost. Type locality: "Porto Rico, W[est]. I[ndies]."
Bufo panayanus López-Seoane, 1890, Mem. Soc. Zool. France, 3: 206. Types: Not stated, presumably originally in MNHNP. Type locality: "Yloilo (Panay)", Philippines; this considered erroneus by Boulenger, 1892, Zool. Rec., 27: 26, and who considered it synonymous with Bufo gutturosus; type locality corrected to Haiti or Santo Domingo by Stejneger, 1905, Science, 21: 472, who provided the synonymy.
Bufo lemur — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 570.
Bufo turpis Barbour, 1917, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 30: 102. Holotype: MCZ 4099, by original designation. Type locality: "Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands". Synonymy by Barbour, 1937, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 82: 97.
Bufo lemur lemur — Barbour, 1937, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 82: 97.
Bufo lemur turpis — Barbour, 1937, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 82: 97.
Peltophryne lemur — 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 lemur — Hedges, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 100. by implication; Pramuk, 2000, J. Herpetol., 34: 334.
English Names
Lowland Caribbean Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 45).
Puerto Rican Crested Toad (USFWS; Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 187).
Distribution
Puerto Rico, where known from a few widely scattered, lowland localities, including both the northern and southern coastal areas; Virgin Gorda I.
Comment
See Rivero, Mayorga, Estremera, and Izquierdo, 1981 "1980", Caribb. J. Sci., 15: 33-40. See comment under Bufo guentheri. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Bufo lemur) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 187. See review by Díaz-Lameiro, Herrera, Barber, Powell, and Bird-Pico, 2010, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 878: 1-7.
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