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A reappraisal of Bufo levicristatus Boettger, 1885 (Anura: Bufonidae), a long forgotten toad from Paraguay

  • 1. Laboratorio de Genética Evolutiva "Claudio Juan Bidau", Instituto de Biología Subtropical (CONICET-UNaM), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Químicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Misiones, Félix de Azara 1552, Posadas, Misiones, Argentina
  • 2. Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya nab. 1, 199034, St. Petersburg, Russia
  • 3. Instituto de Investigación Biológica del Paraguay, Del Escudo 1607, 1429 Asunción, Paraguay
  • 4. Sección Herpetología, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Montevideo
  • 5. Laboratorio de Genética Evolutiva "Claudio Juan Bidau", Instituto de Biología Subtropical (CONICET-UNaM), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Químicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Misiones, Félix de Azara 1552, Posadas, Misiones, Argentina & diegobaldo@gmail.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2382-0872

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Pereyra, Martín O., Milto, Konstantin D., Brusquetti, Francisco, Kolenc, Francisco, Baldo, Diego (2021): A reappraisal of Bufo levicristatus Boettger, 1885 (Anura: Bufonidae), a long forgotten toad from Paraguay. Zootaxa 5023 (1): 121-130, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5023.1.7

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