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Western Narrow-mouthed Toad
Gastrophryne olivacea (Hallowell, 1857 “1856”)

Current SSAR Comments:
There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
(Created by Travis W. Taggart; Version: 2023.04.08.21.20.38)
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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Arkansas Colorado Kansas Missouri Nebraska New Mexico Oklahoma Texas

First instance(s) of published English names:
Texas Toothless Frog (Gastrophryne texensis: Strecker, John K., Jr. 1922. An annotated catalogue of the amphibians and reptiles of Bexar County, Texas. Bulletin Scientific Society of San Antonio (4):1-31); Mitchell's Narrow-mouthed Toad (Gastrophryne areolata: Wright, Anna Allen, and Alex Hazen Wright. 1933. Handbook of frogs and toads. The frogs and toads of the United States and Canada Comstock Publishing Associates, Ithaca, NY. xi+231pp.); Texas Narrow-mouthed Toad (Gastrophryne texensis: Wright, Anna Allen, and Alex Hazen Wright. 1933. Handbook of frogs and toads. The frogs and toads of the United States and Canada Comstock Publishing Associates, Ithaca, NY. xi+231pp.); Western Narrow-mouthed Frog (Gastrophryne olivacea: Smith, Hobart M. 1934. The Amphibians of Kansas. American Midland Naturalist 15(4):377-527); Narrow-mouthed Toad (Gastrophryne olivacea: Brennan, Lawrence A. 1934. A check list of the amphibians and reptiles of Ellis County, Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 37():189-191); Great Plains Narrow-mouthed Toad (Microhyla carolinensis olivacea: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.);

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
Amphibian Species of the World
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Selected References:
1933 Smith, Hobart M. On the proper name for the brevicipetid frog Gastrophryne texensis (Girard) . Copeia 1933(4):217
1950 Bragg, Arthur N. Observations on Microhyla (Salientia: Microhylidae). Wasmann Journal of Biology 8(1):113-118
1950 Blair, Albert P. Notes on Oklahoma microhylid frogs. Copeia 1950(2):152
1955 Blair, W. Frank. Mating call and stage of speciation in the Microhyla olivacea-M. carolinensis complex. Evolution 9(4):469-480
1955 Blair, W. Frank. Size difference as a possible isolation mechanism in Microhyla. The American Naturalist 99(848):297-301
1956 Fitch, Henry S. A field study of the Kansas ant-eating frog, Gastrophryne olivacea. University of Kansas Publications Museum of Natural History 8(4):275-306
1968 Nelson, Craig E. and H. S. Cuellar. Anatomical comparison of tadpoles of the genera Hypopachus and Gastrophryne (Microhylidae). Copeia 1968(2):423-424
1972 Nelson, Craig E. Gastrophryne olivacea. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (122):1-4
1972 Nelson, Craig E. Systematic studies of the North American microhylid genus Gastrophryne. Journal of Herpetology 6(2):111-137
1973 Nelson, Craig E. Gastrophryne. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (134):1-2
1973 Nelson, Craig E. Mating calls of the Microhylinae: Descriptions and phylogenetic and ecological considerations. Herpetologica 29(2):163-176
1976 Bogart, James P. and Craig E. Nelson. Evolutionary implication from karyotypic analysis of frogs of the families Microhylidae and Rhinophrynidae. Herpetologica 32(2):199-208
1996 Sullivan, Brian K., Robert W. Bowker, Keith B. Halmos, and Erik W. A. Gergus. Arizona distribution of three Sonoran Desert anurans: Bufo retiformis, Gastrophryne olivacea, and Pternohyla fodiens. Great Basin Naturalist 56(1):38-47
2005 Lannoo, Michael (Editor) Amphibian Declines: The Conservation Status of United States Species. University fo California Press, Berkeley. 1115pp.
2005 Enderson, Erik F. and Robert L. Bezy. Amphibians of the Vekol Valley. Sonoran Herpetologist 18(7):74-79
2012 Streicher, Jeffrey W., Christian L. Cox , Jonathan A. Campbell , Eric N. Smith , Rafael O. de Sa. Rapid range expansion in the Great Plains Narrow-mouthed Toad (Gastrophryne olivacea) and a revised taxonomy for North American microhylids. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 2012(64):645-653
2013 Dodd, C. Kenneth. Frogs of the United States and Canada. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland. 982pp.
2023 Dodd, C. Kenneth. Frogs of the United States and Canada. Second Edition. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland. 1032pp.

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