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Leptophryne Fitzinger, 1843, a Senior Synonym of Cacophryne Davis, 1935 (Bufonidae)

Author(s): Alain Dubois
Source: Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Jun., 1982), pp. 173-174
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 NOTES 173

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der's organ, and on this basis suggested transfer
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of this genus into the family Bufonidae, where
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it
nology, Project A-055-NH, as authorized understill stands. Griffiths (1954, 1959, 1963), Trueb
Trueb
the Water Research and Development Act of 1978,(1971:36), McDiarmid (1971:5) and Lynch
PL 95-467, through the Water Resource Research(1973:173) provided additional discussions of the
Center of the University of New Hampshire. Weanatomy of this genus and of its taxonomic posi-
thank John Foret for providing the newts. The
tion. Taylor (1962:342), Inger (1966:74), Grandi-
comments of two anonymous reviewers greatly son (1972:53), Berry (1975:52) and Dring (1979:191)
improved the manuscript. mentioned new collections and gave descriptive
and ecological notes of the species Cacophryne bor-
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TRAVIS, J. 1981. The effect of staining onsynonym the of Bufo, and Loveridge (1957:308), cor-
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Cacophryne. Finally, very recently, Laurent
Accepted: 3 Sept. 1981. (1980:406), without giving any explanation, men-
tioned Leptophryne as the valid name of an Asian
genus of bufonids.
Since, as shown above, the name Cacophryne has
not been in frequent or protracted use, and since
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on the
Copyright 1982 Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles other hand the name Leptophryne, although
rarely used, has not been completely forgotten
since its creation, I consider it advisable in this
Leptophryne Fitzinger, 1843, case to follow the Rules and to replace Cacophryne
a Senior Synonym of Cacophryne by its senior synonym Leptophryne. Therefore, the
Davis, 1935 (Bufonidae) two species of this bufonid genus should now be
known as Leptophryne borbonica (Tschudi, 1838)
ALAIN DUBOIS, Laboratoire des Reptiles et Amphi-
and Leptophryne cruentata (Tschudi, 1838).
biens, Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, 25 As
ruea more general remark, I think that Fitzin-
Cuvier, 75005 Paris, France.
ger's (1843) generic and subgeneric names, which
appear in a well-known work and which are ac-
Davis (1935:88) erected the new genus Caco-companied by clear type-species designations, are
phryne for Hylaplesia borbonica Tschudi, 1838,perfectly
a valid and should not be ignored by
modern taxonomists or automatically suppressed
frog species from Java and surrounding regions.
when they are found to be senior synonyms of
He placed this genus in the family Atelopodidae
names in current use. I feel that suppression of
(Davis, 1935, 1936). Shortly after the description
of this genus, Brongersma (1935) referred tothese
it anames should be restricted to the few cases

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