Dixie Valley toad

Dixie Valley toad
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Bufonidae
Genus: Anaxyrus
Species:
A. williamsi
Binomial name
Anaxyrus williamsi
(Gordon, Simandle, & Tracy, 2017)
Synonyms[4]

Bufo williamsi Gordon, Simandle & Tracy, 2017

The Dixie Valley toad (Anaxyrus williamsi or Bufo williamsi) is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae. It is endemic to Churchill County in the state of Nevada in the United States.[5] It was the first new toad species to be described from the United States since the description of the now-extinct in the wild Wyoming toad (A. baxteri) about 49 years prior.[5][6][7]

  1. ^ IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2022). "Anaxyrus williamsi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2022: e.T181492000A181937150. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
  2. ^ "Dixie Valley Toad (Anaxyrus williamsi)". Environmental Conservation Online System. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
  3. ^ 87 FR 73971
  4. ^ "Anaxyrus williamsi (Gordon, Simandle and Tracy, 2017)". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
  5. ^ a b "AmphibiaWeb - Anaxyrus williamsi". amphibiaweb.org. Retrieved 2019-03-17.
  6. ^ Tracy, C. Richard; Simandle, Eric T.; Gordon, Michelle R. (2017-07-06). "A diamond in the rough desert shrublands of the Great Basin in the Western United States: A new cryptic toad species (Amphibia: Bufonidae: Bufo ( Anaxyrus )) discovered in Northern Nevada". Zootaxa. 4290 (1): 123–139. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4290.1.7. ISSN 1175-5334.
  7. ^ "Rare discovery of three new toad species in Nevada's Great Basin". phys.org. Retrieved 2019-03-17.