Sclerophrys tihamica (Balletto and Cherchi, 1973)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Bufonidae > Genus: Sclerophrys > Species: Sclerophrys tihamica

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 tihamicusBalletto, Cherchi, and Gasperetti, 1985, Fauna Saudi Arabia, 7: 328.

"Bufo" tihamicusFrost, 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.

Amietophrynus tihamicusPortik and Papenfuss, 2015, BMC Evol. Biol., 15 (152): 1. 

Sclerophrys tihamica — Ohler and Dubois, 2016, PeerJ, 4(e1553): 9.

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).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Saudi Arabia, 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". Al-Qahtani and Al-Johany, 2018, Saudi J. Biol. Sci., 25: 1380–1386, discussed and mapped this species in southwestern Saudi Arabia. Hamdi and Fathy, 2021, Egypt. Acad. J. Biol. Sci. B. Zool., 13: 23–32, discussed presence and abundance in the Jizan region of extreme southwestern Saudi Arabia. 

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