Subdesert Toad

Taxobox
name = Subdesert Toad


status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Amphibia
ordo = Anura
familia = Bufonidae
genus = "Amietophrynus"
species = "A. xeros"
binomial = "Amietophrynus xeros"
binomial_authority = Tandy, Tandy, Keith & Duff-MacKay, 1976
synonyms = "Bufo wazae" Hulselmans, 1977

"Bufo xeros"The Subdesert Toad ("Amietophrynus xeros") is a species of toad in the Bufonidae family.It is found in Algeria, Cameroon, Chad, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Kenya, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Western Sahara, possibly Angola, possibly Benin, possibly Burkina Faso, possibly Central African Republic, possibly Democratic Republic of the Congo, possibly Guinea-Bissau, and possibly Nigeria.Its natural habitats are dry savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, intermittent rivers, intermittent freshwater marshes, freshwater springs, hot deserts, and arable land.It is threatened by habitat loss.

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* Rödel, M.-O., Largen, M., Howell, K., Tandy, M., Salvador, A. & Lötters, S. 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/54799/all Bufo xeros] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 21 July 2007.