Bufo viridis Laurenti, 1768:27

Wagner, Philipp, Bauer, Aaron M., Leviton, Alan E., Wilms, Thomas M. & Böhme, Wolfgang, 2016, A Checklist of the Amphibians and Reptiles of Afghanistan *, Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 63 (13), pp. 457-565 : 462

Bufo viridis Laurenti, 1768:27 , 111, pl. I, fig. 1 - complex

1768 Bufo viridis Laurenti , Specimen Medicum, Exhibens Synopsin Reptilium Emendatum cum Experimentis Circa Venena et Antidota Reptilium Austriacorum. Joan. Thomae. nob. de Trattnern, Viennae, Austria. (8) + 214 + (3) pp., 5 pls. [thesis version]; (2) + 214 + (1) pp., 5 pls. [published version].

TYPE (S).— Including a specimen illustrated on pl. 1, fig. 1 of Laurenti’s original publication from “inter fissuras, seu cavernas murorum obscuras Viennae,” Austria .

LOCALITIES. — “ Bamian ” ( BMNH 1938.2.4. 3; Smith 1940:383); “Doab” ( BMNH 1938.2.4. 2; Smith 1940: 383); “Pagham” ( BMNH 1940.3.1. 10–13; Smith 1940: 383); “Tirphul, Afghanistan ” ( ZSI 13114–13122 ; Sclater 1892:26 as “ Bufo viridis ”) .

REMARKS.— Four species of the green toad complex are known to occur in Afghanistan (see below and Das [2014]). However, some historical records cannot be assigned with surety to those species and are here treated as incertae sedis within the Bufo viridis complex. Boulenger (1889: 105) mentioned two specimens as “ Bufo viridis ” from “Bala-morghab” [= Balal Murghab, Badghis], several specimens of the same taxon from “Tirphul”, “Karez-badak”, “Kishmaru”, “Puza-gish [NW Kilki]” and several tadpoles “from streams of Mt. Do-Shakh [ North of Kilki ]”, which should be, at least partly, present in the BMNH collection. Uéno and Nakamura (1966) also noted a specimen of “ Bufo viridis ” from “Ishkashim, Wakhan, N. Afghanistan ” and seven specimens of the same taxon from “ Kabul ”. Specimens of the complex from Afghanistan are shown in Fig. 2 .

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FIGURE 2: Specimens of the Bufo viridis complex from Faizabad, Afghanistan. Photos by F. Joisten.