''Bufoides'' is a small genus of
true toads, family Bufonidae.
[ The genus is endemic to Northeast India,][ with one species known from the Garo and Khasi Hills.]
Taxonomy and systematics
''Bufoides'' was erected in 1973 to accommodate '' Ansonia meghalayana''. It remained monotypic until 2016 when Chandramouli and Amarasinghe transferred ''Pedostibes kempi
''Bufoides kempi'' is a species of true toad, family Bufonidae. This poorly known species is endemic to Meghalaya, Northeast India. It is only known with certainty from its type series (two syntypes) collected "above Tura" at in the Garo ...
'' to ''Bufoides'', in their quest to achieve monophyletic
In cladistics for a group of organisms, monophyly is the condition of being a clade—that is, a group of taxa composed only of a common ancestor (or more precisely an ancestral population) and all of its lineal descendants. Monophyletic gro ...
''Pedostibes
The Malabar tree toad (''Pedostibes tuberculosus''), or warty Asian tree toad, is a species of toad found in forests along the Western Ghats of great Karnataka or Deccan. It is a small species and is found in wet tree hollows or leaf bases con ...
''. The move was supported by the morphological similarity and geographic proximity of the two species, and rendered ''Pedostibes'' monotypic and restricted to the Western Ghats. However, it remains possible that the two ''Bufoides'' species are actually conspecific.[
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Description
''Bufoides'' are small toads; the maximum sizes of the two species are in snout–vent length. Supraorbital, preorbital, and postorbital ridges are present. The parotoid glands are short and oval. No externally visible tympanum is present. The tips of the digits have rounded, poorly dilated discs. Dorsal skin is granular. The fingers have basal webbing whereas the toes have complete webbing.
Species
There are two recognized species:
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* '' Bufoides kempi'' (Boulenger, 1919)
* '']Bufoides meghalayanus
''Bufoides meghalayanus'' is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae, the true toads. It is also known as the Mawblang toad, rock toad, or Khasi Hills toad. It is endemic to northeastern India where it is known from Meghalaya and Mizoram. Howe ...
'' (Yazdani and Chanda, 1971)
* '' Bufoides bhupathyi'' Naveen, Tapley, Chandramouli, Jervis, Babu, Meetei & Karunakaran, 2023
References
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Amphibian genera
Amphibians of Asia
Endemic fauna of India