Photo1 <i>Scutiger occidentalis</i> (IMAGE)

Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ

Photo1 <i>Scutiger occidentalis</i>

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The study revealed that the western lazy toad (Scutiger occidentalis), found at an altitude of 4,300 m on Pakistan's Deosai Plateau, is a separate species that is presumably one of the ancestors of the species inhabiting the central Himalayas. This stands in contradiction to the assumption that the lazy toads had colonized the Himalayas from the east.

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Matthias Stöck

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