Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Bufo brongersmai Hoogmoed, 1972, Zool. Meded., Leiden, 47: 50. Holotype: RMNH 16782, by original designation. Type locality: "10 km SW of Tiznit, along road Tiznit-Mirhleft, Morocco".

Pseudepidalea brongersmai — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 365.

"Bufo" brongersmai — Frost, 2013, Amph. Spec. World Online, vers. 5.6: . See comment.

English Names

Tiznit Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 40).

Brongersma's Toad (Geniez, Mateo, Geniez, and Pether, 2004, Amph. Rept. W. Sahara: 34).

Distribution

Sous valley, southern Morocco and Marrakesh plain of central Morocco to Cape Bojador, northern Western Sahara, 0-1600 m elevation.

Comment

In the Bufo viridis group (= Bufotes) according to the original publication. See Salvador, 1996, Smithson. Herpetol. Inform. Serv., 109, for account. See comment under Bufotes viridis. Stöck, Moritz, Hickerson, Frynta, Dujsebayeva, Eremchenko, Macey, Papenfuss, and Wake, 2006, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 41: 663-689, suggested on the basis of molecular data that this species is relatively more closely related more closely to Bufo bufo than to any member of the Bufo viridis group, although that study was not designed to place "Bufo" brongersmai precisely. El-Oualidi and Jaziri, 2001, Bull. Inst. Scient., Rabat, 23: 1-8, discussed the distinctiveness of "Bufo" brongersmai and Bufotes viridis (all as Bufo). Geniez, Mateo, Geniez, and Pether, 2004, Amph. Rept. W. Sahara: 34, provided an account (as Bufo brongersmai) for Western Sahara. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status (as Bufo brongersmai) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 611. Delfino, Doglio, Rocek, Seglie, and Kabiri, 2009, Zool. Stud., Taipei, 48: 108-119, reported on osteological peculiarities. Placed in the non-taxon "Bufo" here because it clearly is not a member of Bufotes, as noted by Dubois and Bour, 2010, Zootaxa, 2447: 1-52, but its true placement remains enigmatic (DRF).

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