Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Atelophryniscus chrysophorus McCranie, Wilson, and Williams, 1989, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 129: 3. Holotype: KU 206730, by original designation. Type locality: "Quebrada de Oro (15° 30′ N, 86° 47′ W), elevation 880 m, tributary of Río Viejo, south slope of Cerro Búfalo, Cordillera de Nombre de Dios, Depto. Atlántida, Honduras".

Bufo chrysophorus — Pramuk and Lehr, 2005, J. Herpetol., 39: 615.

Chaunus chrysophorus — Frost, 2007, Amph. Spec. World Online, vers. 5.0: . by implication of revision by 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.

Rhinella chrysophora — Chaparro, Pramuk, and Gluesenkamp, 2007, Herpetologica, 63: 211. by implication.

English Names

Rio Viejo Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 39).

Distribution

Cloud forest at moderate and intermediate elevations (750-1760 m) of the central and western portions of the Cordillera Nombre de Dios on the Atlantic versant in north-central Honduras.

Comment

See account by McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras: 160-167 (as Atelophryniscus chrysophorus) and discussion of phylogenetic placement in the "Bufo" veraguensis group by Pramuk and Lehr, 2005, J. Herpetol., 39: 610-618. McCranie, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 37, detailed the departmental distribution in Honduras. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Atelophryniscus chrysophorus) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 160.

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