Biology:Anaxyrus
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Short description: Genus of true toads in the family Bufonidae.
| Anaxyrus | |
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| Woodhouse's toad (Anaxyrus woodhousii) | |
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| American toad (Anaxyrus americanus) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Bufonidae |
| Genus: | Anaxyrus Tschudi, 1845 |
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Anaxyrus is a genus of true toads in the family Bufonidae. The genus is endemic to North and Central America. Some authors consider Anaxyrus to be a subgenus within Bufo.[1]
Species
| Binomial name | Described by, year | Common name |
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| Anaxyrus americanus ↔ Bufo americanus | Holbrook, 1836 | American toad |
| Anaxyrus baxteri ↔ Bufo baxteri | Porter, 1968 | Wyoming toad |
| Anaxyrus boreas ↔ Bufo boreas | Baird & Girard, 1852 | western toad |
| Anaxyrus californicus ↔ Bufo californicus | Camp, 1915 | arroyo toad |
| Anaxyrus canorus ↔ Bufo canorus | Camp, 1916 | Yosemite toad |
| Anaxyrus cognatus ↔ Bufo cognatus | Say, 1823 | Great Plains toad |
| Anaxyrus compactilis ↔ Bufo compactilis | Wiegmann, 1833 | plateau toad, Texas toad |
| Anaxyrus debilis ↔ Bufo debilis | Girard, 1854 | North American green toad |
| Anaxyrus exsul ↔ Bufo exsul | G. Myers, 1942 | black toad |
| Anaxyrus fowleri ↔ Bufo fowleri | Hinckley, 1882 | Fowler's toad |
| Anaxyrus hemiophrys ↔ Bufo hemiophrys | Cope, 1886 | Canadian toad |
| Anaxyrus houstonensis ↔ Bufo houstonensis | Sanders, 1953 | Houston toad |
| Anaxyrus kelloggi ↔ Bufo kelloggi | Taylor, 1938 | little Mexican toad |
| Anaxyrus mexicanus ↔ Bufo mexicanus | Brocchi, 1879 | southwestern toad |
| Anaxyrus microscaphus ↔ Bufo microscaphus | Cope, 1867 | Arizona toad |
| Anaxyrus monfontanus ↔ Bufo monfontanus | Gordon, Simandle, Sandmeier & Tracy, 2020[1] | Hot Creek toad |
| Anaxyrus nelsoni ↔ Bufo nelsoni | Stejneger, 1893 | Amargosa toad |
| Anaxyrus nevadensis ↔ Bufo nevadensis | Gordon, Simandle, Sandmeier & Tracy, 2020[1] | Railroad Valley toad |
| Anaxyrus punctatus ↔ Bufo punctatus | Baird & Girard, 1852 | red-spotted toad, Baird's spotted toad |
| Anaxyrus quercicus ↔ Bufo quercicus | Holbrook, 1840 | oak toad |
| Anaxyrus retiformis ↔ Bufo retiformis | Sanders and H.M. Smith, 1951 | Sonoran green toad |
| Anaxyrus speciosus ↔ Bufo speciosus | Girard, 1854 | Texas toad |
| Anaxyrus terrestris ↔ Bufo terrestris | Bonnaterre, 1789 | southern toad |
| Anaxyrus williamsi ↔ Bufo williamsi | Gordon, Simandle, and Tracy, 2017 | Dixie Valley toad |
| Anaxyrus woodhousii ↔ Bufo woodhousii | Girard, 1854 | Woodhouse's toad |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gordon, Michelle R.; Simandle, Eric T.; Sandmeier, Franziska C.; Tracy, C. Richard (2020). "Two New Cryptic Endemic Toads of Bufo Discovered in Central Nevada, Western United States (Amphibia: Bufonidae: Bufo [Anaxyrus)"]. Copeia 108 (1): 166–183. doi:10.1643/CH-18-086. ISSN 0045-8511. https://bioone.org/journals/copeia/volume-108/issue-1/CH-18-086/Two-New-Cryptic-Endemic-Toads-of-Bufo-Discovered-in-Central/10.1643/CH-18-086.full.
External links
- "The Amphibian Tree of Life". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 297: 1–291. 2006. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2006)297[0001:TATOL2.0.CO;2].
- "The history of a Nearctic colonization: Molecular phylogenetics and biogeography of the Nearctic toads (Bufo)". Evolution 58 (11): 2517–2535. November 2004. doi:10.1111/j.0014-3820.2004.tb00881.x. PMID 15612295.
- Pauly, Gregory B.; Hillis, David M.; Cannatella, David C. (June 2009). "Taxonomic freedom and the role of official lists of species names". Herpetologica 65 (2): 115–128. doi:10.1655/08-031R1.1.
Further reading
- Tschudi JJ (1845). "Reptilium conspectus quae in Republica Peruana reperiuntur et pleraque observata vel collecta sunt in itinere". Archiv für Naturgeschichte 11 (1): 150–170. (Anaxyrus, new genus, p. 170). (in Latin)
Wikidata ☰ Q2279985 entry
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