Sclerophrys turkanae

Taxonavigation[edit]

Taxonavigation: Anura
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Anura

Sclerophrys turkanae (Tandy & Feener, 1985: 572)

Type locality: "Loiengalani, Lake Turkana, Kenya (2° 47´ N, 36° 45´ E), altitude 381 m".

Holotype: AMNH 76460.

Tandy, M. & Feener, D.J. 1985. Geographic variation in species of the Bufo blanfordi group (Amphibia: Anura: Bufonidae) and description of a new species. Schuchmann, K.-L. ed., Proceedings of the International Symposium on African Vertebrates: Systematics, Phylogeny and Evolutionary Ecology: A Symposium Held at the Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, May 15-18, 1984: 549–585. Bonn, Zool. Forschungsinst. Mus. Alexander Koenig. [original description: p. 572]
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.E., 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: 1–370. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090(2006)297[0001:TATOL]2.0.CO;2 ; hdl: 2246/5781 . Reference page. [comb. nov.]
Ohler, A. & Dubois, A. 2016. The identity of the South African toad Sclerophrys capensis Tschudi, 1838 (Amphibia, Anura). PeerJ 4: e1553. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.1553 Reference page. [comb. nov.]

Frost, D.R. 2021. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.1. Electronic Database accessible at https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/index.php. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. DOI: 10.5531/db.vz.0001 Sclerophrys turkanae . Accessed on 25 Mar 2008.
World Conservation Monitoring Centre IUCN: Sclerophrys turkanae (Data Deficient)

English: Turkana Toad