Bufotes oblongus

Bufotes oblongus

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Bufonidae
Genus: Bufotes
Species: Bufotes oblongus

Name

Bufotes oblongus (Nikolsky, 1896)

• Lectotype: ZISP 1952.1, ♀, collected by N.A. Zarudny on 29 April 1896. [designated by Stöck, Frynta, Grosse, Steinlein & Schmid (2001: 79)]
• Type locality: “Persia orientali”, specified as “Ssaman-Shahi mountains in East Persia” by Nikolsky (1897: 337), and to “Ssaman Shakhi Mountains near Birjand, South Khorasan Province, Iran, 32.8266 N 59.2146 E” by Ananjeva, Milto, Barabanov & Golynsky (2020: 109).

Combinations

• Bufo oblongus Nikolsky, 1896: 372 [original combination]
• Bufo viridis oblongus — Eiselt & Schmidtler, 1971: 383 [subsequent combination]
• Bufo latastii oblongus — Hemmer, Schmidtler & Böhme, 1978: 377 [subsequent combination]
• Pseudepidalea oblonga — Frost et al., 2006: 365 [subsequent combination]
• Bufo (Pseudepidalea) oblonga — Rastegar-Pouyani, Kami, Rajabzadeh, Shafiei, and Anderson, 2008: 44 [subsequent combination]
• Bufo (Bufotes) oblongus — Dubois & Bour, 2010: 25 [subsequent combination]

Synonyms

• Bufo danatensis Pisanets, 1978: 28
  • Holotype: ZIK AN1.
  • Type locality: “Neighborhood of the Danata village, Kyuren-Dagh mountain ridge, southwestern Turkmenistan”.

References

Primary references

• Nikolski, A.M. 1896. Diagnoses Reptilium et Amphibiorum novorum in Persia orientali a N. Zarudny collectorum. Annuaire du Musée zoologique de l'Académie impériale des sciences de St. Pétersbourg 1(4): 369–372. (Latin) BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Ananjeva, N.B., Milto, K.D., Barabanov, A.V. & Golynsky, E.A. 2010. An annotated type catalogue of amphibians and reptiles collected by Nikolay A. Zarudny in Iran and Middle Asia. Zootaxa 4722(2): 101–128. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4722.2.1. . Reference page. 

Links

• Stöck, M., Kuzmin, S., Papenfuss, T., Anderson, S., Rastegar-Pouyani, N., Dujsebayeva, T., Tuniyev, B., Ananjeva, N. & Orlov, N. 2015. IUCN: Bufotes oblongus  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015: e.T54718A74500311. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-1.RLTS.T54718A74500311.en. Accessed on 23 May 2023.}}

Vernacular names

English: Eastern Persian Toad