Bufo viridis (Bonnaterre, 1789) (Rospo smeraldino), B. balearicus (Boettger, 1881) (Rospo smeraldino italiano), B. boulengeri Lataste, 1879 (Rospo smeraldino nordafricano), B. siculus (Stöck et al., 2008) (Rospo smeraldino siciliano)

Mammals of Italy: An annotated checklist

Checklists represent a basic tool for conservation and management of regional faunas. However, our knowledge on species composition in a territory changes over time due to species movements across borders, extinctions, introductions, as well as to new taxonomic evidence. We aimed to provide the most updated data on native and non-native species of mammals occurring, or that used to occur until recently, on the Italian political territory and seas. The checklist only includes species whose taxonomic status was explicitly agreed in the most recent peer-reviewed literature and based on the most updated taxonomic approaches. For each species, we provided the following information: scientific an…