Check List 16(3): 753-757, doi: 10.15560/16.3.753
Range expansion of the Gulf Coast Toad, Incilius valliceps (Wiegmann, 1833) (Anura, Bufonidae), from Costa Rica
expand article infoJeremy Klank‡, Gerardo Chaves§, Erick Arias|
‡ Museo de Zoología, Universidad de Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica§ Museo de Zoología, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica| Departamento de Zoología, Instituto de Biología, UNAM, Ciudad de México, Mexico

Corresponding author: Jeremy Klank ( jklank97@gmail.com )

Academic editor: MARCELO KOKUBUM
© Jeremy Klank, Gerardo Chaves, Erick Arias.
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Citation: Klank J, Chaves G, Arias E (2020) Range expansion of the Gulf Coast Toad, Incilius valliceps (Wiegmann, 1833) (Anura, Bufonidae), from Costa Rica. Check List 16(3): 753-757. https://doi.org/10.15560/16.3.753
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Abstract

We report the range expansion of the Gulf Coast Toad, Incilius valliceps (Wiegmann, 1833), from tropical moist forests to tropical wet forests and towards southeastern Costa Rica. We evaluated erroneous reports of this species in databases on the web. Also, we discussed that movements to areas with wet conditions for a species known from humid and xeric habitats can be explained by the trends in deforestation and increments of the dry conditions during recent decades in the country.

Keywords
Central America, DNA barcoding, herpetofauna, Neotropics, species distribution