"Bufo" tihamicus Balletto and Cherchi, 1973
Bufo pentoni tihamicus Balletto and Cherchi, 1973, Boll. Mus. Ist. Biol. Univ. Genova, 41: 114. Holotype: IZUG 2, by original designation. Type locality: "Sokna (Yemen)", 14° 48′ N, 43° 26′ E, 350 m elevation.
Bufo tihamicus — Balletto, Cherchi, and Gasperetti, 1985, Fauna Saudi Arabia, 7: 328.
"Bufo" tihamicus — 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: 363. Excluded from Bufo and unassigned to genus.
English Names
Balletto's Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 43).
Distribution
Southern Hadramaut of the Arabian Peninsula, from south of Mecca (Saudi Arabia) to region of Aden (southern Yemen).
Comment
Records of Bufo pentoni from the Arabian Peninsula apply to this closely related species. See account by Balletto, Cherchi, and Gasperetti, 1985, Fauna Saudi Arabia, 7: 328-335. See comments by Schätti and Desvoignes, 1999, Herpetofauna S. Yemen and Sokotra: 33. 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, suggested that this species is not a member of the monophyletic taxon Bufo (the former Bufo bufo group), but could not allocate this species to any of the other genera either, instead leaving this species in a non-taxon "Bufo".
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