List of amphibians of Cyprus
Appearance
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There are three species of amphibians recorded in Cyprus, all of them frogs.[1]
Frogs and toads
[edit]Family: Bufonidae
- Bufotes cypriensis Litvinchuk, Mazepa, Jablonski, Dufresnes, 2019 Cyprus Green Toad[2]
Family: Hylidae
- Hyla savignyi (Audouin, 1827) Middle East tree frog
Family: Ranidae
- Pelophylax cypriensis Ploetner, Baier, Akın, Mazepa, Schreiber, Beerli, Litvinchuk, Bilgin, Borkin, Uzzell, 2012 Cyprus water frog (formerly classified as Pelophylax bedriagae Levant water frog)[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0". American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 3 December 2014.
- ^ Dufresnes, Christophe; Mazepa, Glib; Jablonski, Daniel; Oliveira, Ricardo Caliari; Wenseleers, Tom; Shabanov, Dmytro A.; Auer, Markus; Ernst, Raffael; Koch, Claudia; Ramírez-Chaves, Héctor E.; Mulder, Kevin Patrick; Simonov, Evgeniy; Tiutenko, Arthur; Kryvokhyzha, Dmytro; Wennekes, Paul L.; Zinenko, Oleksandr I.; Korshunov, Oleksiy V.; Al-Johany, Awadh M.; Peregontsev, Evgeniy A.; Masroor, Rafaqat; Betto-Colliard, Caroline; Denoël, Mathieu; Borkin, Leo J.; Skorinov, Dmitriy V.; Pasynkova, Roza A.; Mazanaeva, Lyudmila F.; Rosanov, Juriy M.; Dubey, Sylvain; Litvinchuk, Spartak (December 2019). "Fifteen shades of green: The evolution of Bufotes toads revisited". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 141: 106615. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2019.106615. PMID 31520778. S2CID 202573454.
- ^ Plötner, Jörg; Baier, Felix; Akın, Cıgdem; Mazepa, Glib; Schreiber, Robert; Beerli, Peter; Litvinchuk, Spartak N.; Bilgin, C. Can; Borkin, Leo; Uzzell, Thomas (October 2012). "Genetic data reveal that water frogs of Cyprus (genus Pelophylax) are an endemic species of Messinian origin". Zoosystematics and Evolution. 88 (2): 261–283. doi:10.1002/zoos.201200021.