MCZ Herpetology A-2448

Anaxyrus fowleri (Hinckley, 1882)

Date Collected:

[date unknown] prior to 1996-10-24

North America: United States: Rhode Island: Newport | Newport

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:Herp:A-2448 JSON-LD

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Current Identification
Anaxyrus fowleri (Hinckley, 1882)
Animalia Chordata Amphibia Anura Bufonoidea Bufonidae
Common Name(s): Fowler's toad
Determiner: systematic card on 2020-11-17
Nature of ID: revised taxonomy
Previous Identifications
Bufo lentiginosus townsendi
Animalia Chordata Amphibia Lissamphibia Anura Bufonoidea Bufonidae
Determiner: Howe
Nature of ID: type ID
Remarks: Howe
Bufo woodhousii fowleri Hinckley, 1882
Animalia Chordata Amphibia Lissamphibia Anura Bufonoidea Bufonidae
Common Name(s): Fowler's Toad
Determiner: systematic card on 2020-11-16
Nature of ID: revised taxonomy

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  • muse location number: ZA2448

Part Condition Disposition Count
tissue (95% ethanol) good in collection 1 History
Remarks: liver?; sub-sampled as part of NSF CSBR Holotype grant; transferred to MCZ-CRYO on 2021-09-10
subsampled by = Rina Morisawa   determined date=2021-09-09   determined by=Rina Morisawa  
whole animal (ethanol) good in collection 1 History (6)

Attribute Value Determination On
associated grant Preserving the genomes of the type specimens in the MCZ (CSBR) By: Rina Morisawa 2021-09-10

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  • Catalogue Remarks: ID questionable, 18.viii.94 MLES; Type status: Catalogue Remarks reads 'Type' however no mention of this specimen in Barbour and Loveridge, 1929 and the species Bufo lentigenosus townsendi does not exist in ASW, therefore this probably isn't a type, Joe Martinez 20DEC2022

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  • Continent:
  • North America
  • Country:
  • United States
  • State/Province:
  • Rhode Island
  • County:
  • Newport
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • Newport
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • New Port R.I.
  • Georeference:
  • 41.4900000°, -71.313300° (Error radius: 0.902mi) By: Jonathan Polensvaig on 2005-02-08 (Source: Alexandria Digital Library Gazetteer)
  • Datum:
  • WGS84
  • Radial of Feature:
  • 1450.018944 m
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • decimal degrees
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Began Date / Ended Date:
  • 1700-01-01 / 1996-10-24
  • Verbatim Date:
  • [no verbatim date data]
  • Collecting Event Remarks:
  • End of date collected range set to latest date of data entry for a cataloged item in this collecting event
  • Collector:
  • R. Heber Howe

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Media type: text; Herpetology A-2426; A-2427; A-2428; A-2429; A-2430; A-2431; A-2432; A-2433; A-2434; A-2435; A-2436; A-2437; A-2438; A-2439; A-2440; A-2441; A-2442; A-2443; A-2444; A-2445; A-2446; A-2447; A-2448; A-2449; A-2450 Description: MCZ Herpetology Amphibia 000001-003000, pg.98;

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Ledger Entry for: 25 cataloged items from MCZ:Herp:A-2426 Anaxyrus americanus americanus ...

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