Scutiger tuberculatus Liu and Fei, 1979

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Megophryidae > Subfamily: Leptobrachiinae > Genus: Scutiger > Species: Scutiger tuberculatus

Scutiger tuberculatus Liu and Fei In Liu, Hu, and Fei, 1979, Acta Zootaxon. Sinica, 4: 89. Holotype: CIB 65II0448, by original designation. Type locality: "Pu-xiong of Yuexi-Xian, Sichuan, altitude 3000 m", China.

Scutiger (Aelurophryne) tuberculatusFei, Ye, and Li, 1989, Acta Zool. Sinica, 35: 387; Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean, and Ohler, 2006, Alytes, 24: 13.

English Names

Bumpy Lazy Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 87).

Round-tubercled Cat-eyed Toad (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 88).

Distribution

Southern Sichuan (Mianning, Xichang, Yanbian, Yuexi, and Zhaojue counties) to north-central Yunnan, China, 2600–3750 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

Related to Scutiger glandulatus, according to the original publication. See accounts by Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China 143, and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 88-89. Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 130-131, provided a brief account and illustration. See also brief account by Zhao and Yang, 1997, Amph. Rept. Hengduan Mountains Region: 67-68. In the Scutiger (Aelurophryne) glandulatus group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, in Fei et al. (eds.), Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 66. 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: 443. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 241-246, provided an account and spot map. See comment under Scutiger mammatus. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 140-141, provided a brief account including photographs of specimens and habitat. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 166–167, provided an account, photographs, and a range map. Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 557–559, provided an account, photograph, and spot map. See Khatiwada, Shu, Subedi, Wang, Ohler, Cannatella, Xie, and Jiang, 2019, Asian Herpetol. Res., 10: 139–157, for comments on morphology and range.   

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