Osgood's Ethiopian toad

Osgood's Ethiopian toad

Critically endangered, possibly extinct  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
CITES Appendix I (CITES)[2]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Bufonidae
Genus: Altiphrynoides
Species:
A. osgoodi
Binomial name
Altiphrynoides osgoodi
(Loveridge, 1932)[3]
Synonyms[3]
  • Bufo osgoodi Loveridge, 1932
  • Spinophrynoides osgoodi (Loveridge, 1932)

Osgood's Ethiopian toad (Altiphrynoides osgoodi formerly known as Spinophrynoides osgoodi) is a possibly extinct species of toad in the family Bufonidae endemic to the mountains of south-central Ethiopia. It was named for the American biologist Wilfred Hudson Osgood who carried out fieldwork in Ethiopia for the Field Museum in 1926–27.[4] He collected the original specimens of Osgood's Ethiopian toad and three other endemic species of anuran.[5]

  1. ^ IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2020). "Altiphrynoides osgoodi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T54886A175788627. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T54886A175788627.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
  2. ^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  3. ^ a b "Amphibian Species of the World 6.0, an Online Reference". Darrel Frost and The American Museum of Natural History. Archived from the original on 16 October 2016. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
  4. ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2013). The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians. Pelagic. p. 159. ISBN 978-1-907807-41-1.
  5. ^ "Amphibian declines in Bale, Ethiopia posted by Michele Menegon". Stuart Marsden's Conservation Research Group. Stuart Marsden. Archived from the original on 18 October 2016. Retrieved 17 October 2016.