Arizona toad
| Arizona toad | |
|---|---|
| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Bufonidae |
| Genus: | Anaxyrus |
| Species: | A. microscaphus |
| Binomial name | |
| Anaxyrus microscaphus Cope, 1867 |
|
| Synonyms | |
|
Bufo microscaphus |
|
Arizona Toad (Anaxyrus microscaphus) is a species of toad in the Bufonidae family. It is endemic to the United States.
Its natural habitats are temperate forests, rivers, intermittent rivers, swamps, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marches, freshwater springs, ponds, open excavations, irrigated land, and seasonally flooded agricultural land.
This species' range is continuous along the Virgin River and its tributaries in southwestern Utah, and southern Nevada, and in locations across Arizona and western New Mexico. It is a protected species in Utah, Nevada and Arizona. Protected populations occur in the Virgin River and its tributaries in Zion National Park.
Anaxyrus californicus and Anaxyrus mexicanus were formerly included in this species, which was formerly known as Southwestern toad.
[edit] References
- Pauly, G. B., D. M. Hillis, and D. C. Cannatella. (2004) The history of a Nearctic colonization: Molecular phylogenetics and biogeography of the Nearctic toads (Bufo). Evolution 58: 2517–2535.
- Hammerson, G. & Schwaner, T. 2004. Bufo microscaphus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 21 July 2007.
 |
This Bufonidae article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
