Cuban high-crested toad
Cuban high-crested toad | |
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Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | Anura |
Family: | Bufonidae |
Genus: | Bufo |
Species: | B. gundlachi |
Binomial name | |
Bufo gundlachi Ruibal, 1959 | |
The Cuban high-crested toad or saptito matraca (Bufo gundlachi) is a species of toad in the Bufonidae family that is endemic to Cuba. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, lowland subtropical or tropical moist forests, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, intermittent freshwater marshes, and rocky areas. It is threatened by habitat loss.
References
- Hedges, B. & Díaz, L. 2004. Bufo gundlachi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 21 July 2007.