Large-crested toad

Large-crested toad
Not to be confused with Puerto Rican Crested Toad.
Large-crested toad
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Bufonidae
Genus: Bufo
Species: B. cristatus
Binomial name
Bufo cristatus
Wiegmann, 1833
Synonyms

Incilius cristatus(Wiegmann, 1833)

The large-crested toad (Bufo cristatus) is a critically endangered species of true toad that is endemic to cloud forests in the central Sierra Madre Oriental in Puebla and Veracruz, Mexico. Once feared extinct, it has recently been rediscovered at two sites in Puebla where it is uncommon.[1] The reasons for its decline are habitat loss and pollution, and there are no recent records from Veracruz.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Incilius cristatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. International Union for Conservation of Nature. 2009. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/54617. Retrieved 20 June 2011. 
  • Frost, Darrel; Grant, Taran; Faivovich, Julián; Bain, Raoul H.; Haas, Alexander; Haddad, Célio F.B.; De Sá, Rafael O.; Channing, Alan et al. (2006). "The Amphibian Tree of Life". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 297: 364. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2006)297[0001:TATOL]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0003-0090. 
  • Pauly, G. B., D. M. Hillis, and D. C, Cannatella. (2004) The history of a Nearctic colonization: Molecular phylogenetics and biogeography of the Nearctic toads (Bufo). Evolution 58: 2517–2535.

External links

Data related to Incilius cristatus at Wikispecies

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