Anaxyrus
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Anaxyrus
Woodhouse's Toad (Bufo woodhousii)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Amphibia Order: Anura Family: Bufonidae Genus: Bufo Subgenus: Anaxyrus Frost et al., 2006
Species
See text.

Anaxyrus is a subgenus of true toads, genus Bufo, native to North and Central America. Although some authors have recognized Anaxyrus as a separate genus, this action has not been widely accepted.

Species

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• Bufo americanus Holbrook, 1836 : American Toad
• Bufo baxteri Porter, 1968 : Wyoming Toad, Baxter's Toad
• Bufo boreas Baird and Girard, 1852 : Western Toad, Boreal Toad
• Bufo californicus Camp, 1915 : Arroyo Toad, Mexican Arroyo Toad
• Bufo canorus Camp, 1916 : Yosemite Toad
• Bufo cognatus Say, 1823 : Great Plains Toad
• Bufo compactilis Wiegmann, 1833 : Plateau Toad, Texas Toad
• Bufo debilis Girard, 1854 : Green Toad
• Bufo exsul Myers, 1942 : Black Toad, Inyo Toad, Deep Springs Toad
• Bufo fowleri Hinckley, 1882 : Fowler's Toad
• Bufo hemiophrys Cope, 1886 : Canadian Toad
• Bufo houstonensis Sanders, 1953 : Houston Toad
• Bufo kelloggi Taylor, 1938 : Little Mexican Toad
• Bufo mexicanus Brocchi, 1879 : Mexican Spadefoot Toad
• Bufo microscaphus Cope, 1867 : Arizona Toad, Fort Mojave Toad, Southwestern Toad
• Bufo nelsoni Stejneger, 1893 : Amargosa Toad
• Bufo punctatus Baird and Girard, 1852 : Baird's Spotted Toad, Red-spotted Toad
• Bufo quercicus Holbrook, 1840 : Oak Toad
• Bufo retiformis Sanders and Smith, 1951 : Sonoran Green Toad
• Bufo speciosus Girard, 1854 : Texas Toad, Northern Sonora Toad
• Bufo terrestris (Bonnaterre, 1789) : Southern Toad, Common American Toad
• Bufo woodhousii Girard, 1854 : Woodhouse's Toad

References

• Frost, Darrel (2006). "The Amphibian Tree of Life". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 297: 1–371. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2006)297[0001:TATOL]2.0.CO;2. 
• Pauly, G. B., D. M. Hillis, and D. C. Cannatella. (2004) The history of a Nearctic colonization: Molecular phylogenetics and biogeography of the Nearctic toads (Bufo). Evolution 58: 2517–2535.

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