Alytes obstetricans
(Redirected from Bufo obstetricans)
Taxonavigation
[edit]Taxonavigation: Anura |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Alytidae
Genus: Alytes
Species: Alytes obstetricans
Subspecies (4): A. o. boscai – A. o. lusitanicus – A. o. obstetricans – A. o. pertinax
Name
[edit]Alytes obstetricans (Laurenti, 1768)
- Holotype (Icnotype): Bufo terrestris minor in "Hist. de l'Acad. Des Scienc. 1741".
- Type locality: not stated, designated as “Frankreich [=France]” by Mertens & Müller (1928: 17).
Combinations
[edit]- Bufo obstetricans Laurenti, 1768: 128 [original combination]
- Bombinator obstetricans — Merrem, 1820: 179 [subsequent combination]
- Rana obstetricans — Wolfin Sturm, 1828: 3 [subsequent combination]
- Alytes obstetricans — Wagler, 1830: 206 [subsequent combination]
Synonyms
[edit]- Obstetricans vulgaris Dugès, 1834: 7 [substitute name for Bufo obstetricans Laurenti, 1768]
Native distribution areas
[edit]- Germany
- Netherlands
- Belgium
- Luxembourg
- Switzerland
- France
- Andorra
- Spain
- Portugal
References
[edit]Primary references
[edit]- Laurenti, J.N. 1768. Specimen medicum, exhibens synopsin reptilium emendatam cum experimentis circa venena et antidota reptilium austriacorum, quod authoritate et consensu (In Latin). Joan Thomae: Vienna. 217 pp. BHL Reference page.
Additional references
[edit]- Arntzen, J.W. & García-París, M. 1995. Morphological and allozyme studies of midwife toads (genus Alytes), including the description of two new taxa from Spain. Contributions to Zoology 65(1): 5–34. DOI: 10.1163/26660644-06501002
Reference page.
- Márquez, R. & Bosch, J. 1995. Advertisement calls of the midwife toads Alytes (Amphibia, Anura, Discoglossidae) in continental Spain. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 33(2): 185–192. DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0469.1995.tb00224.x
Reference page.
- García-París, M. & Martínez-Solano, I. 2001. Nuevo estatus taxonomico para las poblaciones ibero-mediterraneas de Alytes obstetricans (Anura: Discoglossidae). Revista Española de Herpetología 15: 99–113. PDF Reference page.
- Martínez-Solano, I., Gonçalves, H., Arntzen, J.W. & García-París, M. 2004. Phylogenetic relationships and biogeography of midwife toads (Discoglossidae: Alytes). Journal of Biogeography 31(4): 603–618. DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.2003.01033.x
Reference page.
- Gonçalves, H., Maia-Carvalho, B., Sousa-Neves, T., García-París, M., Sequera, F., Ferrand, N. & Martínez-Solano, I. 2015. Multilocus phylogeography of the common midwife toad, Alytes obstetricans (Anura, Alytidae): Contrasting patterns of lineage diversification and genetic structure in the Iberian refugium. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 93: 363–379. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.08.009
Reference page.
- Maia-Carvalho, B., Gomes-Vale, C., Sequera, F., Ferrand, N., Martínez-Solano, I. & Gonçalves, H. 2018. The roles of allopatric fragmentation and niche divergence in intraspecific lineage diversification in the common midwife toad (Alytes obstetricans). Journal of Biogeography 45(9): 2146–2158. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.13405
Reference page.
- Dufresnes, C. & Martínez-Solano, I. 2020. Hybrid zone genomics supports candidate species in Iberian Alytes obstetricans. Amphibia-Reptilia 41: 105–112. DOI: 10.1163/15685381-20191312
Reference page.
- Ambu, J., Martínez-Solano, Í. & Dufresnes, C. 2024. A new subspecies of Midwife Toad (Anura, Alytidae, Alytes Wagler, 1829) supported by genomic taxonomy. Alytes 41(1–4): 18–39. Full article Reference page.
Links
[edit]- IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group. 2022. IUCN: Alytes obstetricans (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022: e.T178591974A89699462. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-1.RLTS.T178591974A89699462.en. Accessed on 01 September 2022.
Vernacular names
[edit]Deutsch: Gemeine Geburtshelferkröte
English: Common Midwife Toad
français: Alyte accoucheur
galego: Sapiño comadrón
Nederlands: Vroedmeesterpad
polski: Pętówka babienica
português: Sapo-parteiro-comum
Türkçe: Ebe kurbağa
English: Common Midwife Toad
français: Alyte accoucheur
galego: Sapiño comadrón
Nederlands: Vroedmeesterpad
polski: Pętówka babienica
português: Sapo-parteiro-comum
Türkçe: Ebe kurbağa
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