Amietophrynus
| Amietophrynus | |
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| Amietophrynus regularis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Bufonidae |
| Genus: | Amietophrynus Frost et al., 2006 |
| Species | |
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Amietophrynus is a large genus of true toads native to Africa. Originally, all Amietophrynus species were included in the genus Bufo. The genus was split due to large enough taxonomic divergence.
Species
| Binomial name and author | Common name(s) |
|---|---|
| Amietophrynus asmarae (Tandy, Bogart, Largen & Feener, 1982) | Asmara toad |
| Amietophrynus blanfordii (Boulenger, 1882) | Blanford's toad |
| Amietophrynus brauni (Nieden, 1911) | Braun's toad, dead-leaf toad |
| Amietophrynus buchneri (Peters, 1882) | Buchner's toad |
| Amietophrynus camerunensis (Parker, 1936) | Oban toad |
| Amietophrynus chudeaui (Chabanaud, 1919) | Bata marsh toad |
| Amietophrynus cristiglans (Inger & Menzies, 1961) | Tingi Hills toad |
| Amietophrynus danielae (Perret, 1977) | Ivory Coast toad |
| Amietophrynus djohongensis (Hulselmans, 1977) | |
| Amietophrynus fuliginatus (Witte, 1932) | Shaba Province toad, sooty toad |
| Amietophrynus funereus (Bocage, 1866) | Angola toad, somber toad |
| Amietophrynus garmani (Meek, 1897) | Garman's toad, olive toad, northern mottled toad |
| Amietophrynus gracilipes (Boulenger, 1899) | French Congo toad |
| Amietophrynus gutturalis (Power, 1927) | Lobatsi toad, guttural toad, square-marked toad |
| Amietophrynus kassasii (Baha El Din, 1993) | Damietta toad |
| Amietophrynus kerinyagae (Keith, 1968) | Keith's toad |
| Amietophrynus kisoloensis (Loveridge, 1932) | Kisolo toad |
| Amietophrynus langanoensis (Largen, Tandy & Tandy, 1978) | Lake Langano toad |
| Amietophrynus latifrons (Boulenger, 1900) | high tropical forest toad |
| Amietophrynus lemairii (Boulenger, 1901) | Pweto toad, Lemaire's toad, yellow swamp toad |
| Amietophrynus maculatus (Hallowell, 1854) | Hallowell's toad, flat-backed toad, striped toad |
| Amietophrynus mauritanicus (Schlegel, 1841) | Berber toad, Moroccan toad |
| Amietophrynus pantherinus (Smith, 1828) | panther toad, southern panther toad |
| Amietophrynus pardalis (Hewitt, 1935) | Gleniffer toad, leopard toad, august toad, snoring toad |
| Amietophrynus perreti (Schiøtz, 1963) | Perret's toad |
| Amietophrynus poweri (Hewitt, 1935) | Kimberley toad, Power's toad |
| Amietophrynus rangeri (Hewitt, 1935) | Kei Road toad, Ranger's toad, raucous toad |
| Amietophrynus reesi (Poynton, 1977) | Merera toad |
| Amietophrynus regularis (Reuss, 1833) | square-marked toad, African toad |
| Amietophrynus steindachneri (Pfeffer, 1893) | Steindachner’s toad |
| Amietophrynus superciliaris (Boulenger, 1888) | Zaire toad, Cameroon toad |
| Amietophrynus taiensis (Rödel and Ernst, 2000) | |
| Amietophrynus togoensis (Ahl, 1924) | Togo toad |
| Amietophrynus tuberosus (Günther, 1858) | Fernando Po toad |
| Amietophrynus turkanae (Tandy & Feener, 1985) | Lake Turkana toad |
| Amietophrynus urunguensis (Loveridge, 1932) | Urungu toad |
| Amietophrynus villiersi (Angel, 1940) | Villier's toad |
| Amietophrynus vittatus (Boulenger, 1906) | banded toad, Degen's toad |
| Amietophrynus xeros (Tandy, Tandy, Keith & Duff-MacKay, 1976) | Subsaharan toad, Waza toad, savannah toad |
References
- 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., 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 no. 297: 1-370. [15 Mar 2006]
- C.Michael Hogan. 2013. Amietophrynus mauritanicus. ed. B. Zimkus. African Amphibians
- "Amphibian Species of the World 5.1 - Amietophrynus". Retrieved 2008-04-11.