Bufotes cypriensis Litvinchuk, Mazepa, Jablonski, and Dufresnes, 2019

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Bufonidae > Genus: Bufotes > Species: Bufotes cypriensis

Bufotes cypriensis Litvinchuk, Mazepa, Jablonski, and Dufresnes in Dufresnes, Mazepa, Jablonski, Oliveira, Wenseleers, Shabanov, Auer, Ernst, Koch, Ramírez-Chaves, Mulder, Simonovo, Tiutenko, Kryvokhyzhar, Wennekes, Zinenko, Korshunov, Al-Johany, Peregontsev, Masroor, Betto-Colliard, Denoël, Borkin, Skorinov, Pasynkova, Mazanaeva, Rosanov, Dubey, and Litvinchuk, 2019, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 141: 20. Holotype: ZISP 13849, by original designation. Type locality: "near Finikaria, Cyprus (34.752°N, 33.102°E, 95m a.s.l.)". Zoobank publication registration: 2AC18C16-27C3-4790-9F86-020877B012A6

Common Names

Cyprus Green Toad (original publication). 

Distribution

Coastal Cyprus, from sea level t0 700 m elevation. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Cyprus

Endemic: Cyprus

Comment

Similar to Bufotes sitibundus in mtDNA markers due to recent hybridization and previously confused with that species. 

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