Scutiger (Megophryidae)

Taxonavigation
| Taxonavigation: Anura |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Megophryidae
Subfamilia: Leptobrachiinae
Genus:
Species (32):
S. adungensis –
S. bangdaensis –
S. bhutanensis –
S. biluoensis –
S. boulengeri –
S. brevipes –
S. chintingensis –
S. feiliangi –
S. ghunsa –
S. glandulatus –
S. gongshanensis –
S. kanjiroba –
S. khumbu –
S. jiulongensis –
S. liupanensis –
S. luozhaensis –
S. maculatus –
S. mammatus –
S. meiliensis –
S. muliensis –
S. nepalensis –
S. ningshanensis –
S. nyingchiensis –
S. occidentalis –
S. pingwuensis –
S. sikimmensis –
S. spinosus –
S. tengchongensis –
S. tuberculatus –
S. wanglangensis –
S. wolong –
S. wuguanfui
Name
- Type species: Bombinator sikimmensis Blyth, 1854, by monotypy.
Synonyms
- Cophophryne Boulenger, 1887: 406 [nomen novum pro Scutiger Theobald, 1868, thought to be preoccupied by Scutigera Lamarck, 1801]
- Aelurophryne Boulenger, 1919: 469 [synonymised with Cophophryne by Procter (1922: 585), and with Scutiger by Noble (1931: 493)]
- Type species: Bufo mammatus Günther, 1896, by monotypy.
References
Primary references
- Theobald, W. 1868. Catalogue of reptiles in the Museum of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 37: i–vi, 7–88, i–iii. BHL
- Boulenger, G.A. 1919. On Aelurophryne mammata, Gthr., an addition to the batrachian fauna of Kashmir. Records of the Indian Museum 16: 469–470.
Additional references
- Jiang, K., Rao, D.-Q., Yuan, S.-Q., Wang, J.-S., Li, P.-P., Hou, M., Che, M.-H. & Che, J. 2012. A new species of the genus Scutiger (Anura: Megophryidae) from southeastern Tibet, China. Zootaxa 3388(1): 29–40. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3388.1.3
Reference page. - Jiang, K., Wang, K., Zou, D.-H., Yan, F., Li, P.-P. & Che, J. 2016. A new species of the genus Scutiger (Anura: Megophryidae) from Medog of southeastern Tibet, China. Zoological Research 37(1): 21–30. DOI: 10.13918/j.issn.2095-8137.2016.1.21
Reference page. - Yang, J.-H. & Huang, X.-Y. 2019. A new species of Scutiger (Anura: Megophryidae) from the Gaoligongshan Mountain Range, China. Copeia 107(1): 10–21. DOI: 10.1643/CH-17-661
Reference page. - Shi, S-C., Sui, L-L., Ma, S., Ji, F-R., Budian, A-Y. & Jiang, J-P. 2023. A new Asian lazy toad of the genus Scutiger Theobald, 1868 (Anura, Megophryidae) from southern Tibet Autonomous Region, China. ZooKeys 1187: 31-62. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1187.107958
Reference page. - Zhou, S.-B., Guan, P. & Shi, J.-S. 2023. 东秦岭地区齿突蟾属一新种记述(两栖纲:角蟾科)[A new species of the genus Scutiger from eastern Qinling Mountains (Anura: Megophryidae)] (In Chinese with English abstract). Chinese Journal of Zoology 58(5): 641–650. DOI: 10.13859/j.cjz.202305001
Reference page. - Hofmann, S., Jablonski, D. & Schmidt, J. 2024. Morphological and molecular data warrant the description of a new species of the genus Scutiger (Anura, Megophryidae) from the Central Himalaya. ZooKeys 1210: 229–246. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1210.127106
Reference page. - Hofmann, S., Ohler, A., Baniya, C.B., Dubois, A., Flecks, M., Jablonski, D., Schmidt, J. & Dufresnes, C. 2025. Resolving taxonomic ambiguities in extant Himalayan lazy toads: A new species of the genus Scutiger (Anura, Megophryidae) from eastern Nepal. European Journal of Taxonomy 989: 189–214. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.989.2893
Reference page. - Lyu, Z.-T., Gao, Z.-Y., Huang, J.-J., Wu, D.-H., Jiang, D.-C., Jiang, K. & Li, J.-T. [2024] 2025. A new species of Scutiger from Sichuan, China, previously misreported as S. chintingensis (Anura: Megophryidae). Asian Herpetological Research 16(1): 20–35. DOI: 10.3724/ahr.2095-0357.2024.00490
Reference page.
Vernacular names
- English: Lazy Toads