List of amphibians of Cyprus explained

There are three species of amphibians recorded in Cyprus, all of them frogs.^[1]

Frogs and toads

Family: Bufonidae

• Bufotes cypriensis Litvinchuk, Mazepa, Jablonski, Dufresnes, 2019 Cyprus Green Toad^[2]

Family: Hylidae

• Hyla savignyi (Audouin, 1827) Middle East tree frog

Family: Ranidae

• Pelophylax cypriensis Ploetner, Baier, Akın, Mazepa, Schreiber, Beerli, Litvinchuk, Bilgin, Borkin, Uzzell, 2012 Cyprus water frog (formerly classified as Pelophylax bedriagae Levant water frog)^[3]

See also

• Lists of amphibians by region

Notes and References

1. Web site: Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0 . Frost, Darrel R. . 2014 . American Museum of Natural History . 3 December 2014.
2. Dufresnes . Christophe . Mazepa . Glib . Jablonski . Daniel . Oliveira . Ricardo Caliari . Wenseleers . Tom . Shabanov . Dmytro A. . Auer . Markus . Ernst . Raffael . Koch . Claudia . Ramírez-Chaves . Héctor E. . Mulder . Kevin Patrick . Simonov . Evgeniy . Tiutenko . Arthur . Kryvokhyzha . Dmytro . Wennekes . Paul L. . Zinenko . Oleksandr I. . Korshunov . Oleksiy V. . Al-Johany . Awadh M. . Peregontsev . Evgeniy A. . Masroor . Rafaqat . Betto-Colliard . Caroline . Denoël . Mathieu . Borkin . Leo J. . Skorinov . Dmitriy V. . Pasynkova . Roza A. . Mazanaeva . Lyudmila F. . Rosanov . Juriy M. . Dubey . Sylvain . Litvinchuk . Spartak . Fifteen shades of green: The evolution of Bufotes toads revisited . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . December 2019 . 141 . 106615 . 10.1016/j.ympev.2019.106615 . 31520778 . 202573454 .
3. Plötner . Jörg . Baier . Felix . Akın . Cıgdem . Mazepa . Glib . Schreiber . Robert . Beerli . Peter . Litvinchuk . Spartak N. . Bilgin . C. Can . Borkin . Leo . Uzzell . Thomas . Genetic data reveal that water frogs of Cyprus (genus Pelophylax) are an endemic species of Messinian origin . Zoosystematics and Evolution . October 2012 . 88 . 2 . 261–283 . 10.1002/zoos.201200021 .