African Green Toad

Bufotes boulengeri

Taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalia β€ΊPhylum: Chordata β€ΊClass: Amphibia β€ΊOrder: Anura β€ΊFamily: Bufonidae β€ΊGenus: Bufotes

About

The African green toad (Bufotes boulengeri) is a species of toad found in North Africa from Western Sahara to Egypt, and on the Italian islands of Sicily, Favignana, Lampedusa and Ustica. The populations on the Italian islands were described as a separate species, the Sicilian green toad (B. siculus), in 2008, but more recent authorities treat it as a subspecies of the African green toad because they are very closely related. Both were historically included in...