BUFONIDAE, Gray, 1825

Krysko, Kenneth L., Burgess, Joseph P., Rochford, Michael R., Gillette, Christopher R., Cueva, Daniel, Enge, Kevin M., Somma, Louis A., Stabile, Jennifer L., Smith, Dustin C., Wasilewski, Joseph A., Kieckhefer Iii, Guy N., Granatosky, Michael C. & Nielsen, Stuart V., 2011, 3028, Zootaxa 3028, pp. 1-64 : 23

publication ID

1175­5334

persistent identifier

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scientific name

BUFONIDAE
status

 

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The Asian Black-spotted Toad, Duttaphrynus melanostictus ( Schneider 1799) , is indigenous to southern Asia including central, southern and southwestern China, Taiwan, southward into India, Sri Lanka, and southeast through to Borneo and sections of Indonesia ( Zhao & Adler 1993; Inger 1999; Zhao 1999). This species has become established in Sulawesi, western Papua and the Maldives, and it has been introduced to Australia and New Zealand ( Kraus 2009). On 26 August 2010, a D. melanostictus was intercepted (stage 1) by USDA from inside a shipping container of Money Trees ( Pachira aquatica ) at 6302 NW 36 th Street, Miami, Miami-Dade County (25.80762 o N, - 80.29922 o W). This cargo originated from a port at Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China, on 25 July 2010; however, the location of the tree farm is not known. This D. melanostictus (UF 159699; 65 mm SVL, 32.4 g, MorphoBank M88447 View Materials ; Fig. 11) was subsequently transferred to Zoo Miami before being deposited in the FLMNH. This is the first known voucher for this species in Florida.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Amphibia

Order

Anura

Family

Bufonidae

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