Bufo bimaculatus Wied, 1820

Vanzolini, Paulo E. & Myers, Charles W., 2015, The Herpetological Collection Of Maximilian, Prince Of Wied (1782 - 1867), With Special Reference To Brazilian Materials, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2015 (395), pp. 1-155 : 77-78

Bufo bimaculatus Wied, 1820

1820 Reise 1: 52.

1825 Beitra¨ge: 555 (as variety of Bufo agua ).

PRESENT STATUS: Bufo ictericus Spix, 1824 , a nomen oblitum ( Rhinella icterica in Frost, 2014).

REMARKS: This name appears twice in Wied . First in Reise 1 as a new species: ‘‘ich eine wahrscheinlich noch unbeschriebene Art ( Bufo bimaculatus ), mit zwey grossen dunkeln Feldern auf dem Ru¨cken, bemerkte.’’ Second in the Beitra¨ge, where he concluded that it was a variety of Bufo agua (see preceding account). The name is misspelled as ‘‘the bufo limaculatus’’ in an English translation ( Wied, 1820 ).

The type locality is Inoa˜ (‘‘Inua´ ’’), Serra de Inoa˜, given by Bokermann (1966a: 18) as being in Município de Marica´, Rio de Janeiro. There is no specimen in the collection.

Although Bokermann (1966a: 18) assigned the wrong date to Bufo bimaculatus Wied , he recognized that it has clear priority over B. ictericus Spix. Few other authors have noticed the name bimaculatus , which clearly is a forgotten name; it is not mentioned, for example, either in Hoogmoed and Gruber (1983) or in Frost (2002), and it should be considered a nomen oblitum.