Pico Blanco Toad

Pico Blanco Toad
Conservation status
Critically Endangered (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Bufonidae
Genus:	Bufo
Species:	B. fastidiosus
Binomial name
Bufo fastidiosus Cope, 1875
Synonyms
Cranopsis fastidiosus, Ollotis fastidiosus

The Pico Blanco Toad (Bufo fastidiosus) is a species of toad from Panama and Costa Rica. It is listed as a critical endangered species due to a drastic population decline caused by habitat loss.

References

• Bolaños et al. (2004). Bufo fastidiosus. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 11 May 2006. Database entry includes a range map and justification for why this species is critically endangered

IUCN

• Frost, Darrel; Grant, Taran; Faivovich, Julián; Bain, Raoul H.; Haas, Alexander; Haddad, Célio F.B.; De Sá, Rafael O.; Channing, Alan et al. (2006). "The Amphibian Tree of Life". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 297: 364. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2006)297[0001:TATOL]2.0.CO;2. 
• Pauly, G. B., D. M. Hillis, and D. C, Cannatella. (2004) The history of a Nearctic colonization: Molecular phylogenetics and biogeography of the Nearctic toads (Bufo). Evolution 58: 2517–2535.