Bufotes boulengeri

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anura
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Anura

Familia: Bufonidae
Genus: Bufotes
Species: Bufotes boulengeri

Name

Bufotes boulengeri (Lataste, 1879)

Holotype: BMNH (formerly Lataste collection).
Type locality: “sur les plateaux de Sersou, entre Tiaret et Frendah, dans la province d'Oran, et à une altitude de 1200 mètres”, Algeria.

Combinations

Bufo boulengeri Lataste, 1879: 438 [original combination]
Pseudepidalea boulengeri — Frost et al., 2006: 663 [subsequent combination, by implication]
Bufo (Bufotes) boulengeri — Dubois & Bour, 2010: 25 [subsequent combination]
Bufotes boulengeri — Dufresnes et al., 2019 [subsequent combination]

Synonyms

Bufo hemprichii Fitzinger, 1826: 65 [nomen nudum]
- Type material: not stated, presumably originally in NHMW or ZIUW.
- Type locality: “Ex Africa, Aegypto”.
Bufo viridis var. maculata Camerano, 1884: 233 [nomen nudum fide Stöck et al. (2008: Additional file 2) and Novarini & Bonato (2010: 52)]
- Type material: MZUT. [lost or unknown fide Andreone (1993: pers. comm)]
- Type locality: “Modica-Sicilia”.
Bufo siculus Stöck, Sicilia, Belfiore, Buckley, Lo-Brutto, Lo-Valvo & Arculeo, 2008: 11 [nomen nudum fide Dufresnes et al. (2019: 22), only issued electronically, and prior to 2011]
- Holotype: MRST P215, adult ♀, collected M. Lo Valvo on 17 November 2006.
- Type locality: “Monte Pellegrino reserve (38.170 N, 13.351 E), Palermo, Sicily, Italy”.

References

Primary references

Lataste, F. 1879. La zoologie descriptive et la zoologie geographique. Revue Internationale des Sciences. 2e année 4: 436–438.
Fitzinger, L. 1826. Neue Classification der Reptilien nach ihren natürlichen Verwandtschaften. Nebst einer Verwandtschafts-Tafel und einem Verzeichnisse der Reptilien-Sammlung des K. K. zoologischen Museum's zu Wien. J.G. Hübner: Wien. vii + 66 pp. BHL Reference page.
Camerano, L. [1883] 1884. Monografia degli anfibi anuri italiani. Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze di Torino. Serie 2 35: 185–284.
Stöck, M., Sicilia, A., Belfiore, N.M., Buckley, D., Lo-Brutto, S., Lo-Valvo, M. & Arculeo, M. 2008. Post-Messinian evolutionary relationships across the Sicilian channel: mitochondrial and nuclear markers link a new green toad from Sicility to African relatives. BMC Evolutionary Biology 8(56): 1–19. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-56

Links

Frost, D.R. 2021. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.1. Electronic Database accessible at https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/index.php. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. DOI: 10.5531/db.vz.0001 Bufotes boulengeri . Accessed on 07 Apr 2008.
Martínez-Solano, I., Sindaco, R. & Romano, A. 2015. IUCN: Bufotes boulengeri (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015: e.T153568A74497730. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-1.RLTS.T153568A74497730.en

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Nordafrikanische Wechselkröte
English: African Green Toad
français: Crapaud vert de l'Afrique du nord
italiano: Rospo smeraldino africano