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Family BUFONIDAE
Genus BUFO Laurenti
1768. Bufo Laurenti, Synopsis reptilium, p. 25 (type, B. vulgaris).
The "common" toad of Hispaniola, so long known as Bufo gutturosus,
is far less rare than the Puerto Rican form, which has occasioned so
much active search. The validity of the application of the name had
apparently not been questioned, in spite of the accessibility to specimens
in Europe and in this country.
BUFO Gt)NTHERI, new species
Figures 1, 2
1829. Bufo strumosus Gravenhorst, Deliciae musei zoologici Vratislaviensis,
p. 59, pi. 9, fig. 3 (not of Daudin, 1802; .
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Dum^ril and Bibron, Erp6tologie
g^n^rale, vol. 8, p, 716, 1841 (part, specimens from "Saint Domingue" col-
lected by A. Ricord).
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1858. Bufo gutturosus GtJnther, Catalogue of the Batrachia Salientia in the
collection of the British Museum, p. 67, pi. 5, fig. B (St. Domingo, Hayti)
(not of Latreille, 1801). Boulenger, ifeid., ed. 2, p. 324, 1882. Garman,
Bull. Essex Inst., vol. 19, p. 16, 1887 (Port au Prince, Hayti). Fischer,
Jahrb. Hamburg Wiss. Inst., vol. 5, p. 24, 1888 (Cape Haytien, Hayti).
MtJLLER, Verh. Naturf. Ges. Basel, vol. 10, pt. 1, p. 200, 1892 (Cape Hayti).—
Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 44, No. 2, p. 241, 1914; Zoologica,
vol. 11, No. 4, p. 75, 1930; vol. 19, No. 3, p. 91, 1933; Bull. Mus. Comp.
Zool., vol. 82, No. 2, p. 97, 1937.—Schmidt, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist.,
vol. 44,
Islands,
art. 2, p. 7, 1921; Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin
New York Acad. Sci., vol. 10, pt. 1, p. 29, 1928.—Nieden, Das
Tierreich, Anura I, p. 187, 1923. Mertens, Senckenbergiana, vol. 20,
No. 5, p. 332, 1938; Publ. Inst. Cient. Domfnico-Alemdn, vol. 1, p. 82,
1939.—Boker, Publ. Inst. Cient. Domfnico-Alemdn, vol. 1, p. 16, 1939.
1863. Phrynoidis gutturosus Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1862, p. 358.
Diagnosis.—Head with bony ridges; a tympanum; upper eyelid
normal ; supraorbital and postorbital ridges forming together a more or
less regular curve; edge of jaws not dilated horizontally; snout prominent,
relatively wide and thick; subnasal and labial crests very weak;
a tarsal fold ; pustulose warts confined to anterior part of back.
Type.—U.S.N.M. No. 59081, an adult female from Port-au-Prince,
Haiti, collected by Celestino Bencomo in 1916.
Description of the type.—Top of head bony, with very large crests
enclosing a deep hollow between the orbits, the height of the supraorbital
crest being about 4 mm. above the interorbital space and 2 mm.
above the eyelid; a heavy orbital crest completely encircling the eye,
nearly parallel with its fellow above the eye, most prominent behind
the eye, but becoming less pronounced below, with a prominent supratympanic
crest projecting from it posteriorly and ending in a rounded
knob above and behind the ear; canthus rostralis with a comparatively
weak, low crest, which joins the orbital crest; a slight, poorly developed
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