Anaxyrus
| Anaxyrus | |
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| Woodhouse's toad (Anaxyrus woodhousii) | |
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| American toad (Anaxyrus americanus) | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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 America 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 | , 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 | , 1882 | Fowler's toad |
| Anaxyrus hemiophrys ↔ Bufo hemiophrys | Cope, 1886 | Canadian toad |
| Anaxyrus houstonensis ↔ Bufo houstonensis | , 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 | , , and Tracy, 2017 | Dixie Valley toad |
| Anaxyrus woodhousii ↔ Bufo woodhousii | Girard, 1854 | Woodhouse's toad |
References[]
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- ^ a b c 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.
External links[]
- Frost DR, Grant T, Faivovich JN, Bain RH, Haas A, Haddad CLFB, De Sá RO, Channing A, Wilkinson M, Donnellan SC, Raxworthy CJ, Campbell JA, Blotto BL, Moler P, Drewes RC, Nussbaum RA, Lynch JD, Green DM, Wheeler WC (2006). "The Amphibian Tree of Life". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 297: 1–291. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2006)297[0001:TATOL]2.0.CO;2. hdl:2246/5781.
- Pauly GB, Hillis DM, Cannatella DC (November 2004). "The history of a Nearctic colonization: Molecular phylogenetics and biogeography of the Nearctic toads (Bufo)". Evolution. 58 (11): 2517–2535. 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)
Categories:
- Anaxyrus
- Taxa named by Johann Jakob von Tschudi