Sclerophrys pentoni

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 pentoni

Name

Sclerophrys pentoni (Anderson, 1893: 440)

Type locality: "Shaata Gardens, situated about one mile outside Suakin", Egypt.

Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.21.90-92 (formerly 97.10.28.661-63).

Synonyms

• Bufo pentoni pentoni — Balletto and Cherchi, 1973
• "Bufo" pentoni Frost et al., 2006 [Excluded from Bufo and unassigned to genus]
• Amietophrynus pentoni Portik & Papenfuss, 2015 [syn. Ohler​ & Dubois, 2016]

References

Primary references

• Anderson, J. 1893. On a new species of Zamenis and a new species of Bufo from Egypt. Annals and magazine of natural history, Series 6, 12: 439–440. [original description: p. 440]
• 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 pentoni . Accessed on 10 Apr 2008.
• World Conservation Monitoring Centre IUCN: Sclerophrys pentoni  (Least Concern)

Vernacular names

English: Shaata Gardens Toad