Ansonia guibei Inger, 1966

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Bufonidae > Genus: Ansonia > Species: Ansonia guibei

Ansonia guibei Inger, 1966, Fieldiana, Zool., 52: 104. Holotype: FMNH 152159, by original designation. Type locality: "Mesilau Cave, 1800 m, Mount Kina Balu, Sabah", Malaysia (Borneo).

English Names

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

Guibe's Slender Toad (Haas, Das, Hertwig, Bublies, and Schulz-Schaeffer, 2022, Guide to the Tadpoles of Borneo: 94). 

Distribution

Montane northwestern Sabah, Malaysia (Borneo), 1300-2000 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Malaysia, Malaysia, East (Sarawak and/or Sabah)

Endemic: Malaysia, Malaysia, East (Sarawak and/or Sabah)

Comment

See identification table by Manthey and Grossmann, 1997, Amph. Rept. Südostasiens: 26, to compare this species with others in the Sunda Shelf region. Malkmus, Manthey, Vogel, Hoffmann, and Kosuch, 2002, Amph. Rept. Mount Kinabalu: 65-67, provided an account. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 157. Haas, Das, Hertwig, Bublies, and Schulz-Schaeffer, 2022, Guide to the Tadpoles of Borneo: 95–97, summarized the knowledge of habitat, reproduction, larval morphology and coloration. 

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