. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. (Duges); Michoacan (Duges); Morelos, Cuautla (Duges); Guerrero, Iguala, Tierra Colorado, and San Luis Allende (Gadow); Oaxaca, San Mateo del Mar, and Tehuantepec (Gadow); Vera Cruz, Tampico (Richardson), Coatzacoalcos (Street), Tetela (Gadow), Cuatotolapam and Lake Catemaco (Ruthven). Remarks.âLinnaeus gave the name Rana marina to the toad described and figured by Seba,^° and merely states that its habitat is in America. In the caption for the Datch text, Seba refers to this species as a "rare Virginia ; In the Latin text, ho
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. (Duges); Michoacan (Duges); Morelos, Cuautla (Duges); Guerrero, Iguala, Tierra Colorado, and San Luis Allende (Gadow); Oaxaca, San Mateo del Mar, and Tehuantepec (Gadow); Vera Cruz, Tampico (Richardson), Coatzacoalcos (Street), Tetela (Gadow), Cuatotolapam and Lake Catemaco (Ruthven). Remarks.âLinnaeus gave the name Rana marina to the toad described and figured by Seba,^° and merely states that its habitat is in America. In the caption for the Datch text, Seba refers to this species as a "rare Virginia ; In the Latin text, however, it is listed as "Rana, Marina, Americana, rara; ; The presence of scrotumlike protuberances below the vent, which possibly were the result of faulty preservation, led Seba to conclude that the specimen figured was a male. The type of Bufo mari- nus is therefore the specimen figured and described by Seba. Information furnished by Dr. Leonhard Stejneger indicates that the collection on which the ''Thesaurus" was based was pur- chased in 1716 for 15,000 Dutch guil- ders by "Peter the Great" of Russia and taken to St. Petersburg. This collection subsequently became the property of the St. Petersburg Acad- emy of Sciences, which, however, was not established by Catherine I until December 21, 1725. A large part of the first collection ^^ assembled by Seba was destroyed by fire in St. Petersburg in 1747. Seba died in 1736, and his second collection was sold at public auction in 1752 at Amsterdam. A portion of this collection was also purchased by the :St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Wallbaum, who published an extended description of this toad, con- cludes that it is a land type because the construction of the foot does not seem to be adapted for swimming in the sea. Hence, he argues that if this observation is corroborated, the Latin specific name Bufo marinus (Linnaeus) must be corrected, because it is misleading. Wallbaum proposes Rana giga
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