Bufo fuliginosus Wied, 1824

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 : 78

Bufo fuliginosus Wied, 1824

1824 Isis : 672 (2-line diagnosis).

1825 Beitra¨ge: 557.

PRESENT STATUS: A nomen oblitum 5 Bufo ictericus Spix, 1824 ( Rhinella icterica in Frost, 2014).

REMARKS: The name Bufo fuliginosus — ’’Die dunkelbraune Kröte’’—dates from the 1824 Isis . Both there and in the Beitra¨ge, Wied gave an earlier reference to page 52 of his 1820 Reise, where there is only Bufo bimaculatus (see above), later called ‘‘die zweifleckige Kro¨ te’’ on page 555 of the Beitra¨ge. It seems likely that Wied confused color morphs of the same species and that he was discombobulated by later loss of specimens.

Bufo fuliginosus is listed as Bufonidae incertae sedis by Frost (2002), but Bokermann (1966a: 20) presumably was correct in allocating it to Bufo ictericus . Wied’s firstmentioned locality for fuliginosus in the Beitra¨ge was ‘‘Serra de Inoa˜,’’ leading Bokermann (loc. cit.) to arbitrarily assign the type locality of B. bimaculatus as the shared type locality of B. fuliginosus .

Bufo fuliginous should be considered a nomen oblitum, just like B. bimaculatus above.