Duttaphrynus scorteccii (Balletto and Cherchi, 1970)
Bufo scorteccii Balletto and Cherchi, 1970, Boll. Mus. Ist. Biol. Univ. Genova, 38: 34. Holotype: IZUG 4, by original designation. Type locality: "Mafhaq (Yemen)", 15° 07′ N 43° 54′ E, 1550 m.
"Bufo" scortecci — 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.
Duttaphrynus scortecci — Van Bocxlaer, Biju, Loader, and Bossuyt, 2009, BMC Evol. Biol., 9 (e131): 4. Provisional change here by implication of relation to Duttaphrynus dhufarensis.
English Names
Scortecci's Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 43).
Distribution
Known only from the type locality (Mafhaq, Yemen).
Comment
See account by Balletto, Cherchi, and Gasperetti, 1985, Fauna Saudi Arabia, 7: 362. Close to Bufo dhufarensis according to the original publication. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Bufo scortecci) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 191.
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