Sclerophrys xeros

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anura

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Cladus: Stegocephali Cladus: Tetrapoda Cladus: Batrachomorpha Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Superordo: Batrachia Cladus: Salientia Ordo: Anura

Familia: Bufonidae
Genus: Sclerophrys
Species: Sclerophrys xeros

Name

Sclerophrys xeros (Tandy, Tandy, Keith & Duff-MacKay, 1976: 3)

Type locality: "Ghinda, Eritrea, Ethiopia, station 32, 15° 26´ N 39° 05´ E, altitude 940 m."

Holotype: TNHC 39376.

Synonymy

• Bufo xeros Tandy, Tandy, Keith & Duff-MacKay, 1976
• Bufo wazae Hulselmans, 1977
• Amietophrynus xeros — Frost et al., 2006
• Sclerophrys xeros — Ohler & Dubois, 2016

References

Primary references

• Tandy, M., Tandy, J., Keith, R. & Duff-MacKay, A. 1976. A new species of Bufo (Anura: Bufonidae) from Africa’s dry savannas. Pearce-Sellards Series. Texas Memorial Museum. Austin 24: 1–20. [original description: p. 3]
• 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.]

Links

• 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 xeros . Accessed on 25 Mar 2008.
• World Conservation Monitoring Centre IUCN: Sclerophrys xeros  (Least Concern)

Vernacular names

• English: Desert Toad; Savannah Toad