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Posted by ibouam on 07 Feb 2017 at 16:19 GMT
While reading this interesting article, I noticed that an old scientific name of the Pantherine toad was used (i.e. Amietophrynus mauritanicus), while the new one is Sclerophrys mauritanica. Please see: "Ohler, A., and A. Dubois. 2016. The identity of the South African toad Sclerophrys capensis Tschudi, 1838 (Amphibia, Anura). PeerJ 4(e1553): 1–13" for more details.
RE: Comment about a species scientific name
descoriza replied to ibouam on 08 Feb 2017 at 08:27 GMT
Thank you for this comment,
We were aware of these taxonomic changes. Nevertheless the evolutionary relations of the African pantropical toads are far from being solved (e.g. Frost et al. 2006) and for the moment we decided to maintain the old binomial, until new studies clarify this point.
Best, Daniel