Range expansion of the Gulf Coast Toad, Incilius valliceps (Wiegmann, 1833) (Anura, Bufonidae), from Costa Rica

By

Klank, Jeremy
Chaves, Gerardo
Arias, Erick

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2020-6-23

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

16

Series / Issue

Issue: 3

Pages

753--757

Subjects

Central America , DNA barcoding , herpetofauna , Neotropics , species distribution

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/16.3.753

 

Abstract

We report the range expansion of the Gulf Coast Toad, Incilius valliceps (Wiegmann, 1833), from tropical moist forests to tropical wet forests and towards southeastern Costa Rica. We evaluated erroneous reports of this species in databases on the web. Also, we discussed that movements to areas with wet conditions for a species known from humid and xeric habitats can be explained by the trends in deforestation and increments of the dry conditions during recent decades in the country.