Toad in Morocco (1 Viewer)

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Andreas Roche

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• Oct 20, 2015

• #1

I found this toad in Tafinegout, Morocco, which I think is an African Green Toad – Bufotes boulengeri. I ask for advise to confirm it. Thanx.

 

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vipersgarden

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• Oct 21, 2015

• #2

yes, Bufotes boulengeri, male

 

Andy Adcock

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• Oct 21, 2015

• #3

Is this a race of viridis, this paper makes it seem so or have I got the wrong 'species' altogether?

http://www.zoologicalstudies.com/content/52/1/18

edit...My fault, spelled the scientific name wrong!!!

Can't find much (anything) on this in English?


Andy

 

Last edited: Oct 21, 2015

vipersgarden

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• Oct 23, 2015

• #4

ok, all these "new" species have been Bufo => Pseudepidalea => Bufotes viridis before.
Now they are split into:
Bufotes b. boulengeri: NW Africa
Bufotes boulengeri siculus: Sicily
Bufotes balearicus: Italy, Baleares (introduced)
Bufotes viridis: rest of Europe
Bufotes variabilis: Anatolia, Caucasuas countries, Near and Midde East

Mario

 

Andy Adcock

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• Oct 23, 2015

• #5

When did Bufo become Bufotes?

Andy

 

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Andreas Roche

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• Oct 23, 2015

• #6

Many thanks, Mario!

 

vipersgarden

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• Oct 24, 2015

• #7

andyadcock said:

When did Bufo become Bufotes?

Andy

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Dubois, A. & R. Bour (2010): The nomenclatural status of the nomina of amphibians and reptiles created by Garsault (1764), with a parsimonious solution to an old nomenclatural problem regarding the genus Bufo (Amphibia, Anura), comments on the taxonomy of this genus, and comments on some nomina created by Laurenti (1768) -- Zootaxa 2447: 1–52

Mario