Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Bufo taladai Schwartz, 1960, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 73: 51. Holotype: AMNH 63485, by original designation. Type locality: "2 mi. S Taco Bay (Bahía de Taco), Oriente Province [now Guantánamo Province], Cuba".

Bufo taladai taladai — Vogel, 1968, Aquar. Terrar. Z., 15: 88-89.

Peltophryne taladai — 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 taladai — Hedges, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 100. by implication.

English Names

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

Cuban Spotted Toad (Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 192).

Distribution

Central and eastern Cuba, from Soledad and Cumanayagua, Sancti Spíritus Province, east to the type locality in Guantánamo Province.

Comment

Peltophryne taladai hybridizes with Peltophryne peltocephala in Oriente Province (now Holguin Province), Cuba, according to Schwartz, 1960, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 73: 54. See comment under Peltophryne empusa. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Bufo taladai) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 192. Díaz and Cadíz, 2008, Guía Taxon. Anf. Cuba, 4: 1-294, provided an account, as Bufo taladai.

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