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<mods:namePart>Khalili, Faizurrahman</mods:namePart>
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<taxonomicName ID-CoL="NPMS" ID-ENA="1231263" LSID="9B1506A7-A4EF-50D6-93C9-48DB8BF7FDF6" authority="(Laurenti, 1768) complex *" authorityName="complex *" baseAuthorityName="Laurenti" baseAuthorityYear="1768" class="Amphibia" family="Bufonidae" genus="Bufotes" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Bufotes viridis" order="Anura" pageId="0" pageNumber="73" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="viridis">Bufotes viridis (Laurenti, 1768) complex*</taxonomicName>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 3" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figure 3. Herpetofaunistic records of Bufonidae, Ranidae, Testudinidae and Agamidae from Takhar Province in the context of updated records from Afghanistan (white dots or squares: published data (except for the data on Bufotes oblongus and B. zugmayeri, which are distributed in SW Afghanistan); red dots: new data)." figureDoi="10.3897/herpetozoa.36.e98319.figure3" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/833529" pageId="0" pageNumber="73">Figs 3</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 4" captionStartId="F4" captionText="Figure 4. A. Adult individual of the Bufotes viridis complex from Taleqan (CUHC-PA 167); B. Adult female of the B. viridis complex from Taleqan (CUHC-PA 168); C. Adult female of the B. viridis complex from Taleqan (Gulayi Bagh) (CUHC-PA 173); D. Adult female of Pelophylax terentievi from Taleqan (Gulayi Bagh) (CUHC-PA 170); E. Adult male of P. terentievi from Takatuymaz (Tangi Farkhar) (CUHC-PA 171); F. Subadult individual of P. terentievi from Bay Yawa (Parchaw Khana) (CUHC-PA 215)." figureDoi="10.3897/herpetozoa.36.e98319.figure4" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/833530" pageId="0" pageNumber="73">, 4A-C</figureCitation>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="73">* Note:</paragraph>
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In the studied area possibly including 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="73">Bufotes baturae</emphasis>
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(
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, Schmid, Steinlein &amp; Grosse, 1999); 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="73">Bufotes perrini</emphasis>
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Mazepa, Litvinchuk, Jablonski &amp; Dufresnes, 2019; 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="73">Bufotes pewzowi</emphasis>
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(Bedriaga, 1898), 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="73">Bufotes turanensis</emphasis>
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(Hemmer, Schmidtler &amp; 
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, 1978).
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="73">Takhar records.</paragraph>
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Taleqan (Gulayi Bagh), 
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, 
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; 792 m a.s.l., 31 January 2020, found dead in grassy habitat near stream, one individual of unknown sex (CUHC-PA 197); Taleqan (Takhar University Campus), 
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, 
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, 792 m a.s.l., 8 May 2020, garden near stream, one adult female (CUHC-PA 168); Taleqan (Takhar University Campus), 
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, 
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, 800 m a.s.l., 16 May 2020, open field, one subadult female (CUHC-PA 167); Taleqan (Pusthhur), 
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, 
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, 899 m a.s.l, 18 May 2020, semi-desert area, one subadult individual of unknown sex (CUHC-PA 189); Taleqan (Gulayi Bagh), 
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, 
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, 794 m a.s.l., 28 May 2020, garden near stream, two adult females (CUHC-PA 173).
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="73">Figure 3.</emphasis>
Herpetofaunistic records of 
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, 
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and 
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from Takhar Province in the context of updated records from Afghanistan (white dots or squares: published data (except for the data on 
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and 
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, which are distributed in SW Afghanistan); red dots: new data).
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="73">Distribution in Afghanistan.</paragraph>
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Badakhshan, Badghis, Balkh, Bamiyan, Faryab, Ghazni, Herat, Kabul, Kandahar, Kunduz, Laghman, Logar, Nangarhar, Parwan, Samangan, Takhar, Wardak (
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; 
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; 
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, 
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) Provinces, representing distribution in 50% of all Afghan Provinces.
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="73">Figure 4.</emphasis>
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="73">A.</emphasis>
Adult individual of the 
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complex from Taleqan (CUHC-PA 167); 
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Adult female of the 
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complex from Taleqan (CUHC-PA 168); 
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Adult female of the 
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complex from Taleqan (Gulayi Bagh) (CUHC-PA 173); 
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Adult female of 
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from Taleqan (Gulayi Bagh) (CUHC-PA 170); 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="73">E.</emphasis>
Adult male of 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="73">P. terentievi</emphasis>
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from Takatuymaz (Tangi Farkhar) (CUHC-PA 171); 
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="73">F.</emphasis>
Subadult individual of 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="73">P. terentievi</emphasis>
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from Bay Yawa (Parchaw Khana) (CUHC-PA 215).
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="73">Chorotype.</paragraph>
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is the most likely species found in Takhar Province and belongs to the Turanian chorotype.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="73">Remarks.</paragraph>
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The most comprehensive overview based on different types of data, but mostly genetics, has been provided by 
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. According to these authors, 
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, 
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, 
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and 
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are or may be present in northern Afghanistan and thus possibly in Takhar Province. Nevertheless, it is necessary to verify this through DNA-based approaches on a more comprehensive sampling of these toads collected from various locations within Afghanistan - most of data used by the published paper originated from the border areas of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan; see fig. S4 in 
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. Individuals that we photographed resemble 
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that was mentioned from Takhar Province as a single specimen from Taleqan (CAS 120973; 
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). In such case, our observations provide the second confirmation of this species for the Province.
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