Ansonia

Ansonia longidigita

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anura

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Anura

Familia: Bufonidae
Genus: Ansonia
Species (38): A. albomaculata – A. echinata – A. endauensis – A. fuliginea – A. glandulosa – A. guibei – A. hanitschi – A. infernalis – A. inthanon – A. jeetsukumarani – A. kanak – A. karen – A. kelabitensis – A. khaochangensis – A. kraensis – A. kyaiktiyoensis – A. latidisca – A. latiffi – A. latirostra – A. leptopus – A. longidigita – A. lumut – A. malayana – A. mcgregori – A. minuta – A. muelleri – A. penangensis – A. phuketensis – A. pilokensis – A. platysoma – A. siamensis – A. smeagol – A. spinulifer – A. teneritas – A. thinthinae – A. tiomanica – A. torrentis – A. vidua

Name

Ansonia Stoliczka, 1870: 104

• Type species: Ansonia penangensis Stoliczka, 1870, by monotypy.

References

Primary references

• Stoliczka, F. 1870. Observations on some Indian and Malayan Amphibia and Reptilia (Abstract). Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1870(4): 103–109. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Iskandar, D.T. & Mumpuni 2004. A new toad of the genus Ansonia (Amphibia, Anura, Bufonidae) from Sumatra. Hamadryad 28(1&2): 59–65. PDF Reference page. 
• Matsui, M., Khonsue, W. & Nabhitabhata, J. 2005. A new Ansonia from the Isthmus of Kra, Thailand (Amphibia, Anura, Bufonidae). Zoological Science 22(7): 809–814. DOI: 10.2108/zsj.22.809 Reference page. 
• Frost, D.R., Grant, T., Faivovich, J., Bain, R.H., Haas, A., Haddad, C.F.B., de Sá, R.O., Channing, A., Wilkinson, M., Donnellan, S.C., Raxworthy, C.J., Campbell, J.A., Blotto, B.L., Moler, P.E., Drewes, R.C., Nussbaum, R.A., Lynch, J.D., Green, D.M. & Wheeler, W.C. 2006. The amphibian tree of life. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 297: 1–370. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090(2006)297[0001:TATOL]2.0.CO;2 ; hdl: 2246/5781 . Reference page. 
• Grismer, L.L. 2006. A new species of Ansonia Stoliczka 1872 (Anura: Bufonidae) from Central Peninsular Malaysia and a revised taxonomy for Ansonia from the Malay Peninsula. Zootaxa 1327(1): 1–27. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1327.1.1 Reference page. 
• Grismer, L.L. 2006. A new species of Ansonia Stoliczka, 1870 (Anura: Bufonidae) from a lowland rainforest in southern peninsular Malaysia. Herpetologica 62(4): 466–475. DOI: 10.1655/0018-0831(2006)62[466:ANSOAS]2.0.CO;2 Reference page. 
• Wood, P.L., Grismer, L.L., Ahmad, N. & Senawi, J. 2008. Two new species of torrent dwelling toads Ansonia Stoliczka, 1870 (Anura: Bufonidae) from Peninsular Malaysia. Herpetologica 64(3): 321–340. DOI: 10.1655/07-065.1 Reference page. 
• Inger, R.F. & Stuebing, R.B. 2009. New species and new records of Bornean frogs (Amphibia: Anura). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 57(2): 527–535. PDF Reference page. 
• Haas, A.; Wolter, J.; Hertwig, S.T.; Das, I. 2009. Larval morphologies of three species of stream toads, genus Ansonia (Amphibia: Bufonidae) from East Malaysia (Borneo), with a key to known Bornean Ansonia tadpoles. Zootaxa 2302: 1–18. Abstract & excerpt
• Van Bocxlaer, I., Biju, S.D., Loader, S.P. & Bossuyt, F. 2009. Toad radiation reveals into-India dispersal as a source of endemism in the Western Ghats-Sri Lanka biodiversity hotspot. BMC Evolutionary Biology 9: e131. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-9-131 Reference page. 
• Matsui, M., Tominaga, A., Liu, W.-Z., Khonsue, W., Grismer, L.L., Diesmos, A.C., Das, I., Sudin, A., Yambun, P., Yong, H., Sukumaran, J. & Brown, R.M. 2020. Phylogenetic relationships of Ansonia from Southeast Asia inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences: Systematic and biogeographic implications (Anura: Bufonidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 54(2): 561–570. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.08.003 Reference page. 
• Van Bocxlaer, I., Loader, S.P., Roelants, K., Biju, S.D., Menegon, M. & Bossuyt, F. 2010. Gradual adaptation toward a range-expansion phenotype initiated the global radiation of toads. Science 327(5966): 679–682. DOI: 10.1126/science.1181707 Reference page. 
• Pyron, R.A. & Wiens, J.J. 2011. A large-scale phylogeny of Amphibia including over 2,800 species, and a revised classification of extant frogs, salamanders, and caecilians. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61(2): 543–583. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.06.012 Reference page. 
• Wilkinson, J.A., Sellas, A.B. & Vindum, J.V. 2012. A new species of Ansonia (Anura: Bufonidae) from northern Tanintharyi Division, Myanmar. Zootaxa 3163(1): 54–68. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3163.1.3 Reference page. 
• Chan, K.O., Wood, P.L. Jr, Anuar, S., Muin, M.A., Quah, E.S.H., Sumarli, A.X. & Grismer, L.L. 2014. A new species of upland stream toad of the genus Ansonia Stoliczka, 1870 (Anura: Bufonidae) from northeastern Peninsular Malaysia. Zootaxa 3764(4): 427–440. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3764.4.3 Reference page. 
• Hertwig, S.T., Min, P.Y., Haas, A. & Das, I. 2014. Dressed in black. A new Ansonia Stoliczka, 1870 (Lissamphibia: Anura: Bufonidae) from Gunung Murud, Sarawak, East Malaysia (Borneo). Zootaxa 3814(3): 419–431. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3814.3.9 Reference page. 
• Davis, H.R., Grismer, L.L., Klabacka, R.L., Muin M.A., Quah, E.S.H., Anuar, S., Wood, P.L. Jr. & Sites, J.W. Jr 2016. The phylogenetic relationships of a new Stream Toad of the genus Ansonia Stoliczka, 1870 (Anura: Bufonidae) from a montane region in Peninsular Malaysia. Zootaxa 4103(2): 137–153. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4103.2.4 Reference page. 
• Grismer, L.L., Wood, P.L., Aowphol, A., Cota, M., Grismer, M.S., Murdoch, M.L. Aguilar, C. & Grismer, J.L. [2016] 2017. Out of Borneo, again and again: biogeography of the Stream Toad genus Ansonia Stoliczka (Anura: Bufonidae) and the discovery of the first limestone cave-dwelling species. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 120(2): 371–395. DOI: 10.1111/BIJ.12886 Reference page. 
• Waser, L.E., Schweizer, M., Haas, A., Das, I., Jankowski, A., Pui, Y.M. & Hertwig, S.T. 2017. From a lost world: an integrative phylogenetic analysis of Ansonia Stoliczka, 1870 (Lissamphibia: Anura: Bufonidae), with the description of a new species. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 17(1): 287–303. DOI: 10.1007/s13127-016-0294-2 Reference page. 
• Matsui, M., Khonsue, W. & Panha, S. 2018. Two New Species of Ansonia from Thailand (Anura: Bufonidae). Zoological Science 35(1): 39–48. DOI: 10.2108/ZS170120 Reference page. 
• Quah, E.S.H., Grismer, L.L., Wood, P.L. Jr., Thura, M.K., Oaks, J.R. & Lin, A. 2019. Discovery of the westernmost population of the genus Ansonia Stoliczka (Anura, Bufonidae) with the description of a new species from the Shan Plateau of eastern Myanmar. Zootaxa 4656(3): 545–571. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4656.3.11 Reference page. 
• Matsui, M., Nishikawa, K., Eto, K. & Hossman, M.Y. 2020. Two New Ansonia from Mountains of Borneo (Anura, Bufonidae). Zoological Science 37(1): 91–101. DOI: 10.2108/zs190078 Reference page. 
• Suwannapoom, C., Grismer, L.L., Pawangkhanant, P., Naiduangchan, M., Yushchenko, P.V., Arkhipov, D.V., Wilkinson, J.A. & Poyarkov, N.A. 2021. Hidden tribe: A new species of Stream Toad of the genus Ansonia Stoliczka, 1870 (Anura: Bufonidae) from the poorly explored mountainous borderlands of western Thailand. Vertebrate Zoology 71: 763–779. DOI: 10.3897/vz.71.e73529 Reference page. 
• Suwannapoom, C., Grismer, L.L., Pawangkhanant, P. & Poyarkov, N.A. 2022. A new species of stream toad of the genus Ansonia Stoliczka, 1870 (Anura: Bufonidae) from Nakhon Si Thammarat Range in southern Thailand. Zootaxa 5168(2): 119–136. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5168.2.2 Reference page. 

Vernacular names

English: Stream Toads
ไทย: คางคกห้วย

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