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spade shaped metatarsal tubercles for digging. Usually they lay 

 their eggs in temporary ponds. The species Pelobates varaldii 

 lives in North Africa and is endemic to northwestern Morocco. 



Pelobates varaldii Pasteur and Bons, 1959 



(Figs. 11-12: 



Peiojbates varaldii Pasteur and Bons, 1959. Trav. Inst. Sclent 

 Cherif. Rabat, Ser. Zool . , 17: 117. 



Fig. 1 1 . Palmar view of hand (left) and plantar view of feet (right) of Pelobates varaldii (MVZ 

 162434). 



Diagnosis 



Toad with smooth skin, no dorsolateral glandular folds and 

 no paratoid glands. Metatarsal spade keratinous. Pupil vertical 

 and tympanum inconspicuous. 



Size 



Snout-vent lengths to 65 mm in males and 70 mm in females 



Description 



Head wide, somewhat concave between eyes. Nostril 



