Almirante Trail Toad

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Almirante Trail Toad
Conservation status
Critically Endangered (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Amphibia Order: Anura Family: Bufonidae Genus: Bufo Species: B. peripatetes
Binomial name
Bufo peripatetes Savage, 1972
Synonyms
Cranopsis peripatetes

The Almirante Trail Toad (Bufo peripatetes) is a species of toad endemic to Panama. It is listed as a critical endangered species due to an expected population decline in coming years.

[edit] References

• Solís et al (2004). Bufo peripatetes. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 11 May 2006. Database entry includes a range map and justification for why this species is critically endangered

IUCN

• Frost, Darrel et al. (2006). "The Amphibian Tree of Life". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 297: 364. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2006)297[0001:TATOL]2.0.CO;2. 
• Pauly, G. B., D. M. Hillis, and D. C, Cannatella. (2004) The history of a Nearctic colonization: Molecular phylogenetics and biogeography of the Nearctic toads (Bufo). Evolution 58: 2517–2535.