East Texas toad – Anaxyrus woodhousii velatus (Bragg and Sanders, 1951)[1]
Die beiden Unterarten unterscheiden sich nicht nur äußerlich sondern auch molekulargenetisch durch die Mitochondriale DNA.
There are three recognised subspecies:[2]
Anaxyrus woodhousei The East Texas toad was described as a subspecies,[1] elevated to full species,[4] and dismissed as a hybrid between A. woodhousei x A. fowleri without taxonomic status by others.[5] Photographed in the Big Thicket National Preserve, Hardin Co. TX. USA, 2019.
↑ abBragg, A. N., and O. Sanders. 1951. A new subspecies of the Bufo woodhousii group of toads (Salientia: Bufonidae). Wasmann Journal of Biology. San Francisco 9: 363–378
↑Order Anura: Frogs and Toads. In: Checklist of Amphibian Species and Identification Guide. USGS, 2. Februar 2013, abgerufen am 17. November 2014.
↑Girard, C. 1854. A list of North American bufonids, with diagnoses of new species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 7: 86–88.
↑Sanders, O. 1986. The heritage of Bufo woodhousei Girard in Texas (Salientia: Bufonidae). Occasional Papers of the Strecker Museum. Waco, Texas 1: 1–28.
↑Sullivan, B. K., K. B. Malmos, and M. F. Given. 1996. Systematics of the Bufo woodhousii complex (Anura: Bufonidae): advertisement call variation. Copeia 1996: 274–280.
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