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The Indus Valley toad is the national amphibian of Pakistan. Family Bufonidae (true toads) - 8 species Bufo himalayanus (Himalayan Toad) Bufo latastii (Baltistan Toad) Bufo melanostictus (Common Indian Toad) Bufo olivaceus (Olive Toad) Bufo pseudoraddei Photographs of subspecies. Bufo p. pseudoraddei (Kaghan Toad) Bufo p. baturae (Batura Toad)
The wildlife of Pakistan comprises a diverse flora and fauna in a wide range of habitats from sea level to high elevation areas in the mountains, including 195 mammal, 668 bird species and more than 5000 species of Invertebrates. [1]
More than 99 percent of all species, amounting to over five billion species, [7] that ever lived on Earth are estimated to be extinct. [8] [9] Estimates on the number of Earth's current species range from 10 million to 14 million, [10] of which about 1.2 million have been documented and over 86 percent have not yet been described. [11]
Amphibians are in decline worldwide, with 2 out of every 5 species threatened by extinction, according to a paper published Wednesday in the scientific journal Nature.
As of 2010, the IUCN Red List, which incorporates the Global Amphibian Assessment and subsequent updates, lists 650 amphibian species as "Critically Endangered", and 35 as "Extinct". [4] Despite the high risk this group faces, recent evidence suggests the public is growing largely indifferent to this and other environmental problems, posing ...
For fossil species, exact or even approximate numbers are harder to find; Raup, 1986 [15] includes data based on a compilation of 250,000 fossil species so the true number is undoubtedly somewhat higher than this. The number of described species is increasing by around 18,000–19,000 extant, and approaching 2,000 fossil species each year, as ...
Western region of Pakistan, most of which is enveloped in Balochistan province, has a complex geography. Some of the mammal species include the caracal, Balochistan leopard, Balochistan forest dormouse, Blanford's fox, dromedary camel, goitered gazelle, Indian crested porcupine, long-eared hedgehog, markhor, ratel and striped hyena, bird species of bearded vulture, houbara bustard and merlin ...
Assuming that there may be a maximum of about 50 million species currently alive, [127] it stands to reason that greater than 99% of the planet's species went extinct prior to the evolution of humans. [128] Estimates on the number of Earth's current species range from 10 million to 14 million, of which about 1.2 million have been documented and ...