Chaunus spinulosus

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Chaunus spinulosus
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Bufonidae
Genus: Chaunus
Species: C. spinulosus
Binomial name
Chaunus spinulosus
Wiegmann, 1834
Synonyms
Bufo arequipensis Vellard, 1959
Bufo flavolineatus Vellard, 1959
Bufo spinulosus ssp. papillosus Gallardo, 1965
Bufo trifolium Tschudi, 1845
Bufo spinulosus

Chaunus spinulosus is a species of toad in the Bufonidae family. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru. Its natural habitats are subantarctic forests, temperate forests, temperate shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland, rivers, intermittent rivers, swamps, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater marshes, temperate desert, arable land, pastureland, rural gardens, and open excavations.

[edit] Source

  • Angulo, A., De la Riva, I., Córdova-Santa Gadea, J., Veloso, A., Núñez, H., Úbeda, C., Lavilla, E. & Blotto, B. 2004. Bufo spinulosus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 21 July 2007.
  • Frost, Darrel (2006). "The Amphibian Tree of Life". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 297: 364. 
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