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Bufo eichwaldi Litvinchuk, Borkin, Skorinov, and Rosanov, 2008
Bufo eichwaldi Litvinchuk, Borkin, Skorinov, and Rosanov, 2008, Russ. J. Herpetol., 15: 35. Holotype: ZISP 7185.1, by original designation. Type locality: "near an office of the Girkansky Nature Reserve in Azfilial (the vicinity of Avrora village), 38°39′ N 48°48′ E, Lenkoran District, Azerbaijan".
Bufo (Bufo) eichwaldi — Rastegar-Pouyani, Kami, Rajabizadeh, Shafiei Bafti, and Anderson, 2008, Iranian J. Anim. Biosyst., 4: 44.
Bufo (Bufo) eichwaldi — Dubois and Bour, 2010, Zootaxa, 2447: 24.
Common Names
Eichwald’s Toad (original publication).
Distribution
Southeastern Azerbaijan in the Talysh Mountains and extending into the Talysh and Elburz mountains of northern Iran (reported for Golestan, Mazandaran, and Gilan provinces and probably to be found in Ardabil Province); likely to be found in southwestern Turkmenistan.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Azerbaijan, Iran
Likely/Controversially Present: Turkmenistan
Comment
Regarded as a member of the Iranian fauna by Rastegar-Pouyani, Kami, Rajabizadeh, Shafiei Bafti, and Anderson, 2008, Iranian J. Anim. Biosyst., 4: 44. Records (as Bufo bufo) provided for Mazandaran Province by Tuck, 1975, Herpetol. Rev., 6: 115. Recuero, Canestrelli, Vörös, Szabó, Poyarkov, Arntzen, Crnobrnja-Isailovic, Kidov, Cogǎlniceanu, Caputo, Nascetti, and Martínez-Solano, 2012, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 62: 71-86, on the basis of mt and nuDNA concludd that Bufo eichwaldi is the sister taxon of Bufo bufo + (Bufo spinosus + Bufo verrucosissimus). This relationship was confirmed by Litvinchuk, Mazepa, Auer, and Kami, 2012, Herpetol. J., 22: 439-440, provided a range map and suggested a relationship of Bufo gargarizans + (Bufo eichwaldi + (Bufo bufo + Bufo verrucosissimus) [although regarding verrucosissimus as a subspecies]. Safaei-Mahroo, Ghaffari, Fahimi, Broomand, Yazdanian, Najafi-Majd, Hosseinian Yousefkani, Rezazadeh, Hosseinzadeh, Nasrabadi, Mashayekhi, Motesharei, Naderi, and Kazemi, 2015, Asian Herpetol. Res., 6: 257–290, reported on distribution and conservation status in Iran. Nöllert, Grosse, Buschendorf, and Geiger, 2016, Mertensiella, 24: 7–32, summarized and discussed the taxonomic history of this species and its recognition within the Bufo bufo group and provided a range map. See Dufresnes, 2019, Amph. Eur., N. Afr., & Middle East: 75, for brief summary of identifying morphology and biology, a range map, as well as a photograph. Kidov, Matushkina, and Litvinchuk, 2020, Russ. J. Herpetol., 27: 11–18, modeled the range and discussed its conservation status. Kuzmin, 2013, Amph. Former Soviet Union, Ed. 2: 144–145 , provided an account for Azerbaijan. Key to the species, synonymy, distribution (including map), and access to literature provided by Safaei-Mahroo and Ghaffari, 2020, Compl. Guide Amph. Iran: 1–331. Safaei-Mahroo, Ghaffari, and Niamir, 2023, Zootaxa, 5279: 1–112, provided for Iran an identification key including this species, photographs, habitat and conservation threats, a review of the literature, as well as dot and modeled distribution maps. Hosseinian Yousefkani, Shafiei Bafti, Rezazadeh Mashizi, and Moeinadini, 2024, North-West. J. Zool., Romania, 20(e242501): 85–89, discussed the possible effects of climate change on range in Iran, provided a current dot map and projected climate change map. Derakhshan, Kami, and Mohammadi, 2024, Zool. Middle East, 7: 210–225, reported on morphological and genetic diversity in marginal populations in northern Iran.
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