The Anura is the order of animals in the class Amphibia that includes frogs and toads. Although distinctions can be made between frogs and toads, those distinctions have no scientific status.
The living Anura are typically divided into three suborders.
Suborder Archaeobatrachia - 4 families, 6 genera, 20 species; includes the tailed frog and midwife toad
Forskål, incidentally, is inadvertently responsible for the misused, mismatched, misunderstood trinomial Testudo graeca terrestris and died of the plague in 1763.
Anderson, J. Zoology of Egypt: Reptilia and Batrachia.
Pages 28-30 provide an accurate descriptive account, comparing this tortoise to other Mediterranean tortoises and discussing its range, relying considerably upon Lortet (1887).
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