Caucasian toad
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Rana caucasica Pallas, 1814
| Caucasian Toad | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Bufonidae |
| Genus: | Bufo |
| Species: | B. verrucosissimus |
| Binomial name | |
| Bufo verrucosissimus (Pallas, 1814) |
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| Synonyms | |
| Bufo colchicus Eichwald, 1831 | |
The Caucasian Toad (Bufo verrucosissimus) is a species of toad in the Bufonidae family. It is found in Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Russia, and Turkey. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, intermittent rivers, rural gardens, ponds, and aquaculture ponds. It is threatened by habitat loss.
[edit] References
- Kuzmin, S., Stöck, M., Papenfuss, T., Rastegar-Pouyani, N., Ugurtas, I., Anderson, S., Tarkhnishvili, D., Ananjeva, N., Orlov, N. & Tuniyev, B. 2004. Bufo verrucosissimus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 21 July 2007.
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