Rentapia everetti (Boulenger, 1896)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Bufonidae > Genus: Rentapia > Species: Rentapia everetti

Nectophryne everetti Boulenger, 1896, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, 17: 450. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.18.27 (formerly 1896.4.29.13) according to Inger, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 72. Type locality: "Mount Kina Balu, North Borneo", Sabah, Malaysia (Borneo).

Pedostibes everettiBarbour, 1938, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 51: 192.

Pedostibes rugosus Inger, 1958, Sarawak Mus. J., 8: 476. Holotype: FMNH 81297, by original designation. Type locality: "Menuang, headwaters of the Baleh River", Third Division, Sarawak, Malaysia (Borneo). Synonymy by Chandramouli and Amarasinghe, 2016, Herpetologica, 7: 137. 

Rentapia rugosus — Chan, Grismer, Zachariah, Brown, and Abraham, 2016, PLoS One, 11(1: e0145903): 9.

Rentapia everettii — Chan, Grismer, Zachariah, Brown, and Abraham, 2016, PLoS One, 11(1: e0145903): 9. Provisional arrangement. 

English Names

Everett's Asian Tree Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 45).

Distribution

Forests of northern Borneo in Sarawak and Sabah (Malaysia,) Brunei, and expected in adjacent Kalimantan, Indonesia, 150–1050 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

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

Likely/Controversially Present: Indonesia

Comment

Reviewed by Inger, 1966, Fieldiana, Zool., 52: 92.96–97, who noted that the previous record for Sarawak is not of this species (as Pedostibes rugosus). Malkmus, Manthey, Vogel, Hoffmann, and Kosuch, 2002, Amph. Rept. Mount Kinabalu: 82-83, provided an account (as Pedostibes rugosus). Placed into Rentapia by Chan, Grismer, Zachariah, Brown, and Abraham, 2016, PLoS One, 11(1: e0145903): 9. See identification table by Manthey and Grossmann, 1997, Amph. Rept. Südostasiens: 26, to compare this species (as Pedostibes rugosus) with others in the Sunda Shelf region. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status (as Pedostibes rugosus) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 612. Das, 2007, Amph. Rept. Brunei: 31, provided a photograph and brief account (as Pedostibes rugosus). Placed into Rentapia by Chan, Grismer, Zachariah, Brown, and Abraham, 2016, PLoS One, 11(1: e0145903): 9.

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