Four modes of lightening of coloration in desert populations of the green toad, bufo viridis

Yehudah L. Werner

doi:10.1080/09397140.1988.10637561

Four modes of lightening of coloration in desert populations of the green toad, bufo viridis

Yehudah L. Werner^*

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Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences

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Abstract

The Gréen Toad reaches its southern limit in the Israeli desert. Its coloration, green blotches on lighter background, may become pale in one or more of four ways: lighter hues, reduced number of blotches, reduced size of blotches, and reduced dark area of ring-shaped blotches.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	68-71
Number of pages	4
Journal	Zoology in the Middle East
Volume	2
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/09397140.1988.10637561
State	Published - Jan 1988

Keywords

Anura
Coloration
Desert
Israel
Middle East
Sexual dimorphism
Variation

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