Caucasian Toad
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| Caucasian Toad | ||||||||||||||
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| Bufo verrucosissimus (Pallas, 1814) |
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| Bufo colchicus Eichwald, 1831
Rana caucasica Pallas, 1814
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The Caucasian Toad (Bufo verrucosissimus) is a species of toad in the Bufonidae family. It is found in Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Russia, and Turkey. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, intermittent rivers, rural gardens, ponds, and aquaculture ponds. It is threatened by habitat loss.
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- Kuzmin, S., Stöck, M., Papenfuss, T., Rastegar-Pouyani, N., Ugurtas, I., Anderson, S., Tarkhnishvili, D., Ananjeva, N., Orlov, N. & Tuniyev, B. 2004. Bufo verrucosissimus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 21 July 2007.
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