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Hot Creek Toad
Anaxyrus monfontanus (Gordon, Simandle, Sandmeier, and Tracy, 2020)

Current SSAR Comments:
This isolated population was diagnosed with respect to other taxa and populations in the A. boreas group using morphology and mitochondrial DNA data. See comments under A. boreas

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
(Created by Travis W. Taggart; Version: 2023.04.08.10.03.27)
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First instance(s) of published English names:
No historic English names have been assigned to this taxon yet.

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
Amphibian Species of the World
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Pertinent LIterature:
2020 Gordon, Michelle R., Eric T. Simandle, Franziska C. Sandmeier, and C. Richard Tracy. Two new cryptic endemic toads of Bufo discovered in central Nevada, western United States (Amphibia: Bufonidae: Bufo [Anaxyrus]). Copeia 108(1):166-183
2023 Dodd, C. Kenneth. Frogs of the United States and Canada. Second Edition. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland. 1032pp.

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