Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Bufo lughensis Loveridge, 1932, Occas. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 8: 49. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.21.9 (formerly 1895.9.24.38), according to A.G.C. Grandison in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 52. Type locality: "from between Matagoi and Lugh, Italian Somaliland", Somalia.

Bufo gardoensis Scortecci, 1932, Atti Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Milano, 71: 267. Syntypes: MSNM 666 (6 specimens), but possibly now lost, according to Conci, 1967, Atti Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Milano, 106: 94. Type locality: "Gardo Migiurtinia", Somalia. Synonymy by Tandy and Keith, 1972, in Blair (ed.), Evol. Genus Bufo: 159, and Balletto, Cherchi, and Lanza, 1978, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 11: 223.

Bufo chappuisi Roux, 1936 "1935", Mem. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, N.S., 4: 182. Holotype: NHMB 4824, according to 40. Type locality: "Delta de l'Omo, st. 27, 570 m.", W. Suk, Turkana, Ethiopia. Synonymy by Largen, 2001, Tropical Zool., 14: 320.

Poyntonophrynus lughensis — 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

Lugh Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 42; Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 84).

Turkana Toad (Bufo chappuisi [no longer recognzied]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 41).

Distribution

Arid lowlands from Somalia through eastern and southern Ethiopia to South Sudan and lowland Kenya.

Comment

Lanza, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 158, noted that this species had been confused in some literature with Bufo taitanus. See account by Scortecci, 1933, Atti Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Milano, 72: 38 (as Bufo gardoensis). See Largen, 2001, Tropical Zool., 14: 320-321, for comments on systematics, habitat, and distribution. Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 84-85, provided an account. See account (as Bufo lughensis), photograph, and map for Ethiopia and Eritrea by Largen and Spawls, 2010, Amph. Rept. Ethiopia Eritrea: 96.

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