Sclerophrys mauritanica

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 mauritanica

Name

Sclerophrys mauritanica (Schlegel, 1841: 143)

• Lectotype: RMNH 2122.
• Type locality: " ... in den Umgebungen der Stadt Algier ... Sümpfen der Ebene Metidscha; ... Bona", Algeria.

Synonyms

• Bufo pantherinus Tschudi, 1838
• "Bufo" mauritanicus — Frost (et al.), 2006
• Amietophrynus mauritanicus — Van Bocxlaer, Biju, Loader, and Bossuyt, 2009 [syn. Ohler & Dubois, 2016]

References

Primary references

• Schlegel, H. 1841. Bemerkungen über die in der Regentschaft Algier gesammelten Amphibien. Wagner, M. F. ed., Reisen in der Regentschaft Algier in den Jahren 1836-1838. Volume 3: 106–139. Leipzig, Leopold Voss.
• 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. 
• 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. 

Additional references

• Beukema, W. & Crochet, P.-A. 2014. Nomenclature, lectotype designation and type locality restriction for Amietophrynus mauritanicus (Schlegel, 1841) (Anura, Bufonidae). Zootaxa 3754(4): 498–500. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3754.4.11 Reference page. 
• Van Bocxlaer, I., S.D. Biju, S.P. Loader & F. Bossuyt. 2009: Toad radiation reveals into-India dispersal as a source of endemism in the Western Ghats-Sri Lanka biodiversity hotspot. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 9(e131): 1–10.

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 mauritanica . Accessed on 10 Apr 2008.
• World Conservation Monitoring Centre IUCN: Sclerophrys mauritanica  (Least Concern)

Vernacular names

English: Berber Toad