Description:

The Puerto Rican crested toad is medium-sized, ranging in length from 64 mm to 120mm, and is easily recognizable by its upturned muzzle and bony crest on its head. Adults are brown or yellow-brown in color with black or brown spots, and their ventral surfaces are creamy white with some dark spots. Females are larger than Поклонная гора экскурсии males and have a more noticeable crest (photo below). During the breeding season, males show yellow coloration on their flanks and have dark mating pads on the first and second toes of their forelegs. Young toads are dark brown, have chevron markings on the back (the chevron pattern tends to disappear after 2 years of age) (Lentini, 2004) and have rust or salmon-colored edges along the back and sides.

 

 

Video of male PRCT release call before Bd swabbing

 

 

Taxonomy:

Kingdom- Animalia
Phylum- Chordata
Class- Amphibia
Order- Anura
Family- Bufonidae
Peltophryne lemur Cope, 1869 “1868”, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 20:311. Holotype: USNM, not located. Type locality: “Porto Rico, W[est]. I[ndies].”

Bufo panayanus Seoane, 1890, Mem. Soc. Zool. France, 3: 206. Types: not stated, presumably MNHNP. Type locality: “Ylioilo (Panay)”, Philippines; this considered erroneous by Boulenger, 1892, Zool. Rec., 27:26, and who considered it synonymous with Bufo gutturosus; corrected to Haiti or Santo Domingo by Stejneger, 1905, Science, 21: 472, who provided the current synonymy.

Bufo lemur Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. For 1902: 570.

Bufo turpis Barbour, 1917, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 30: 120. Holotype: MCZ 4099. Type locality: “Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands”. Synonymy by XXX.

Bufo lemur lemur barbour, 1937, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 82:97.

Bufo lemur turpis Barbour, 1937, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 82:97.

Peltophryne lemur Pregill, 1981, Copeia, 1981: 273.

Bufo lemur Hedges, 1996, Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: XXX; Pramuk, 2000, J. Herpetol., 34: 334-340.

Peltophryne lemur Frost, et al, 2006, The Amphibian Tree of Life. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 297:1-370.

 

Reference:

Frost, Darrel R. 2004. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 3.0 (22 August, 2004). Electronic Database accessible at http:/research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibian/index. php. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA.