Bufo lugubrosus Girard 1853 ...

• Main Authors: Lavilla, Esteban O., Rabanal, Felipe E., Langone, José A., Vásquez, Dayana, Castro-Carrasco, Camila
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Amphibia; Anura; Bufonidae; Bufo; Bufo lugubrosus; Carrasco; Valparaíso; VáSquez; Antarc*; Antarctica; Tierra del Fuego
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5924727; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5924727

Bufo lugubrosus Girard, 1853 (Figs. 1–2) Although no name-bearing type was formally designated, the specimen UNSNM 16359 was considered as such by Cochran (1961). Included data indicate that it was collected in January of 1839 in Valparaíso, Chile, by J. Drayton (Joseph Drayton, one of the two illustrators that accompanied the expedition). The date in the catalogue is clearly wrong: By the end of January, 1839 the expedition was still in Tierra del Fuego, preparing the leg to Antarctica (Wilkes 1844). Although Article 72.4.7 of the International Commission Code of Zoological Nomenclature, 1999 (ICZN 1999) indicates that mention of “ type ” or equivalent in a museum catalog or label is not evidence that the specimen correspond to type material, still circumstantial evidence suggest that this individual was the one on which the description was based, including its provenance, collector, year of collection, coincidences with Girard’s (1853) description and its redescription (Girard 1858a), and with the ... : Published as part of Lavilla, Esteban O., Rabanal, Felipe E., Langone, José A., Vásquez, Dayana & Castro-Carrasco, Camila, 2019, The identity of the Chilean Amphibians collected by the United States exploring expedition, pp. 183-192 in Zootaxa 4567 (1) on page 185, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4567.1.11, http://zenodo.org/record/2592986 ...