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
  • Rhinella spinulosa (Wiegmann, 1834)
  • Bufo arequipensis Vellard, 1959
  • Bufo flavolineatus Vellard, 1959
  • Bufo spinulosus Wiegmann, 1834
  • Bufo spinulosus ssp. papillosus Gallardo, 1965
  • Bufo trifolium Tschudi, 1845
  • Bufo simus Schmidt, 1857

Chaunus spinulosus also known as Rhinella spinulosa a species of toad in the Bufonidae family that 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.

References

  1. Ariadne Angulo, Ignacio De la Riva, Jesús Córdova-Santa Gadea, Alberto Veloso, Herman Núñez, Carmen Úbeda, Esteban Lavilla, Boris Blotto (2010). "Rhinella spinulosa". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 29 April 2013. 
  • Frost, D. R.; Grant, T.; Faivovich, J. N.; Bain, R. H.; Haas, A.; Haddad, C. L. F. B.; De Sá, R. O.; Channing, A.; Wilkinson, M.; Donnellan, S. C.; Raxworthy, C. J.; Campbell, J. A.; Blotto, B. L.; Moler, P.; 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: 1–291. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2006)297[0001:TATOL]2.0.CO;2. hdl:2246/5781. 


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