Sclerophrys maculata

Sclerophrys maculata

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: Sclerophrys
Species: Sclerophrys maculata

Name

Sclerophrys maculata (Hallowell, 1854: 101)

Type locality: "Monrovia, Liberia".

Noetype: BMNH 1984. 163, designated neotype by Poynton, Loader, Conradie, Rödel & Liedtke, 2016.

Synonyms

• Bufo cinereus Hallowell, 1845
• Bufo maculatus Hallowell, 1854 [Replacement name for Bufo cinereus: p. 101]
• Bufo regularis maculatus — Loveridge, 1936
• Bufo regularis pusillus Mertens, 1937
• Bufo pusillus — Pienaar, 1963
• Bufo latifrons savannae Inger, 1968
• Bufo maculatus pusillus — Hulselmans, 1970
• Amietophrynus maculatus Frost et al., 2006 [syn. Ohler​ & Dubois, 2016]

References

• Hallowell, E. 1854. Remarks on the geographic distribution of reptiles, with descriptions of several species supposed to be new, and corrections of former papers. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 7: 98–105. [Replacement name for Bufo cinereus: p. 101]
• Hallowell, E. 1845. Descriptions of new species of African reptiles. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 2: 169–172. [original description: p. 169]
• Frost, D.R., Grant, T., Faivovich, J., Bain, R.H., Haas, A., Haddad, C.F.B., de Sá, R.O., Channing, A., Wilkinson, M., Donnellan, S.C., Raxworthy, C.J., Campbell, J.A., Blotto, B.L., Moler, P.E., Drewes, R.C., Nussbaum, R.A., Lynch, J.D., Green, D.M. & Wheeler, W.C. 2006. The amphibian tree of life. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 297: 1–370. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090(2006)297[0001:TATOL]2.0.CO;2 ; hdl: 2246/5781 . Reference page.  [comb. nov.]
• Ohler, A. & Dubois, A. 2016. The identity of the South African toad Sclerophrys capensis Tschudi, 1838 (Amphibia, Anura). PeerJ 4: e1553. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.1553 Reference page.  [comb. nov.]

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 Sclerophrys maculata . Accessed on 25 Mar 2008.
• World Conservation Monitoring Centre IUCN: Sclerophrys maculata  (Least Concern)

Vernacular names

English: Hallowell's Toad; Flat-backed Toad; Striped Toad