Scutiger (toad)
| Scutiger | |
|---|---|
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| Scutiger boulengeri | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Megophryidae |
| Genus: | Scutiger Theobald, 1868 |
| Type species | |
| Bombinator sikimmensis Blyth, 1855 | |
Scutiger is a genus of toads in the family Megophryidae. They are known commonly as lazy toads. They occur in China, Burma, Nepal, and northern India in high-altitude habitats.[1] Most are endemic to China.[2]
Species
There are 20 species:[1]
- Scutiger adungensis Dubois, 1979 – Adung lazy toad
- Scutiger bhutanensis Delorme and Dubois, 2001
- Scutiger boulengeri (Bedriaga, 1898) – Boulenger's lazy toad, Xizang alpine toad, Himalayan stream frog
- Scutiger brevipes (Liu, 1950)
- Scutiger chintingensis Liu and Hu, 1960 – Chinting lazy toad, Chinting alpine toad
- Scutiger glandulatus (Liu, 1950) – Hopachai lazy toad, chest gland cat-eyed toad
- Scutiger gongshanensis Yang and Su, 1979 – Gongshan lazy toad, Gongshan cat-eyed toad
- Scutiger jiulongensis Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 1995 – Jiulong cat-eyed toad
- Scutiger liupanensis Huang, 1985 – Liupan lazy toad, Liupan alpine toad
- Scutiger maculatus (Liu, 1950) – spotted lazy toad, piebald alpine toad
- Scutiger mammatus (Günther, 1896) – Tungsolo lazy toad
- Scutiger muliensis Fei and Ye, 1986 – Muli cat-eyed toad
- Scutiger nepalensis Dubois, 1974 – Nepal lazy toad, mountain pelobatid toad, Asiatic spadefoot toad
- Scutiger ningshanensis Fang, 1985 – Ningshan lazy toad, Ningshan alpine toad
- Scutiger nyingchiensis Fei, 1977 – Nyingchi lazy toad, Ladakh pelobatid toad, Nyingshi alpine toad
- Scutiger pingwuensis Liu and Tian, 1978 – Pingwu lazy toad, Pingwu alpine toad
- Scutiger sikimmensis (Blyth, 1855) – Sikkim lazy toad, Sikkim high altitude toad, Blyth's short-limbed frog
- Scutiger tuberculatus Liu and Fei, 1979 – bumpy lazy toad, round-tubercled cat-eyed toad
- Scutiger wanglangensis Ye and Fei, 2007
- Scutiger wuguanfui Jiang, Rao, Yuan, Wang, Li, Hou, Che, and Che, 2012[2] – Wu's lazy toad, Medog lazy toad
References
- 1 2 Frost, Darrel R. (2015). "Scutiger Theobald, 1868". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
- 1 2 Jiang, K., et al. (2012). A new species of the genus Scutiger (Anura: Megophryidae) from southeastern Tibet, China. Zootaxa 3388, 29-40.
Further reading
- Fu, J., et al. (1997). Phylogeny of genus Scutiger (Amphibia: Megophryidae): a re-evaluation. Asiatic Herpetol. Res 7, 32-37.
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