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Bufo aspinius (Spineless Stream Toad)

Synonyms: Phrynoidis aspinia; Torrentophryne aspinia

Wikipedia Abstract

Bufo aspinius is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae, described in 1996.It is endemic to China specifically Yangbi Yi Autonomous County, west of Yunling Mountains in Yunnan Province and occurs at 1800 to 2200 meters elevation.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, rivers, swamps, and arable land.This species is threatened by habitat loss for smallholder farming and it only occurs in one known protected area Tongbiguan Nature Reserve.
View Wikipedia Record: Bufo aspinius

Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Bufo aspinius

Attributes

Litter Size [1]  2,250
Snout to Vent Length [1]  3.74 inches (9.5 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Yunnan Plateau subtropical evergreen forests China Palearctic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Changshanerhai Nature Reserve V 139448 Yunnan, China  

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Oliveira, Brunno Freire; São-Pedro, Vinícius Avelar; Santos-Barrera, Georgina; Penone, Caterina; C. Costa, Gabriel. (2017) AmphiBIO, a global database for amphibian ecological traits. Sci. Data.
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0