Mainly found in Europe, which of these creatures has the zoological name 'Bufo bufo'?
The common toad, European toad, or in Anglophone parts of Europe, simply the toad ('Bufo bufo', from Latin 'bufo' "toad"), is a frog found throughout most of Europe (with the exception of Ireland, Iceland, and some Mediterranean islands), in the western part of North Asia, and in a small portion of Northwest Africa.
It is one of a group of closely related animals that are descended from a common ancestral line of toads and which form a species complex. The toad is an inconspicuous animal as it usually lies hidden during the day. It becomes active at dusk and spends the night hunting for the invertebrates on which it feeds. It moves with a slow, ungainly walk or short jumps, and has greyish-brown skin covered with wart-like lumps.
The common toad was first given the name 'Rana bufo' by the Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus in the '10th edition of Systema Naturae' in 1758. In this work, he placed all the frogs and toads in the single genus 'Rana'. It later became apparent that this genus should be divided, and in 1768, the Austrian naturalist Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti placed the common toad in the genus 'Bufo', naming it 'Bufo bufo'.
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