Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Bufo caeruleostictus Günther, 1859, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1859: 415. Syntypes: BMNH 1947.2.20.48-49 (formerly 60.6.16.93-94), according to XXX. Type locality: "Andes of western Ecuador".

Rhaebo ? coeruleostictus — Cope, 1862, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 14: 358. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Bufo chanchanensis Fowler, 1913, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 65: 155. Holotype: ANSP 21095 (formerly 18181), according to Malnate, 1971, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 123: 349. Type locality: "Camp Chiguancay, in Chanchan River valley, western Ecuador". Synonymy by Hoogmoed, 1989, Zool. Verh., Leiden, 250: 6-18.

Bufo typhonius chanchanensis — Leavitt, 1933, Copeia, 1933: 8.

Rhaebo caeruleostictus — 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

None noted.

Distribution

Western Ecuador along the western slope of the Cordillera Occidental, 40-2000 m elevation.

Comment

See account, discussion, and synonymy by Hoogmoed, 1989, Zool. Verh., Leiden, 250: 6-18, who considered this species to most likely be in the Bufo guttatus group. It's inclusion in Rhaebo is obviously provisional (DRF). See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Bufo caeruleostictus) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 179.

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