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Pelodytes caucasicus

Taxon: Pelodytidae
Author: David Tarkhnishvili
Comment: Akhaldaba, Borjomi Gorge, early 1990s. Male (left) and female (right) of mud-diver
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Scientific Name ID: 45634
Name According To: www.faunaeur.org
Taxon Rank: Family
Scientific Name Authorship: Bonaparte, 1850
Vernacular Name: Mud-divers
Georgian Name: ჯვარულები
GBD Remarks:

The country has one out of three representatives of this monogeneric western Eurasian family with disjunct distribution.


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