Rhaebo blombergi (Myers and Funkhouser, 1951)
Bufo blombergi Myers and Funkhouser, 1951, Zoologica, New York, 36: 279. Holotype: CAS-SU 10419, by original designation. Type locality: "Nachao, Nariño Province, southwestern Colombia, at an altitude of about 550 meters".
Rhaebo blombergi — 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
Blomberg's Toad (Cochran, 1961, Living Amph. World: 80; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 37).
Colombian Giant Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 40). .
Distribution
Northwestern Ecuador (Esmeraldas, Carchi, Imbabura, and Pichincha provinces) to western Colombia (Cauca, Chocó, Nariño, and Valle del Cauca provinces) on the western slopes of the Cordillera Occidental, 200-550 m elevation.
Comment
See Hoogmoed, 1989, Zool. Verh., Leiden, 250: 1-32. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status (as Bufo blombergi) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 611. Mueses-Cisneros, Cisneros-Heredia, and McDiarmid, 2012, Zootaxa, 3447: 22-40, discussed some likely misidentifications in the literature.
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