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Sclerophrys

Sclerophrys is a large genus of 'true toads', family Bufonidae, native to Africa and southern Arabian Peninsula. Originally, all species were included in the genus Bufo. The genus, originally named Amietophrynus, was split due to large enough taxonomic divergence. Ohler and Dubois showed in 2016 that Sclerophrys capensis Tschudi, 1838 is the same species as Bufo regularis rangeri Hewitt, 1935, the type species of Amietophrynus. Because the former name is older, the implication is that Amietophrynus is a junior synonym of Sclerophrys. There are 45 recognized Sclerophrys species. The change from Amietophrynus to Sclerophrys is not yet fully implemented in Wikipedia, and the table below reflects the old situation:

[ "Ecology", "Zoology", "Habitat" ]
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