Bufo

''Bufo'' is a genus of true toads in the amphibian family Bufonidae. As traditionally defined, it was a wastebasket genus containing a large number of toads from much of the world, but following taxonomic reviews most of these have been moved to other genera, leaving only seventeen extant species from Europe, northern Africa and Asia in this genus, including the well-known common toad . Some of the genera that contain species formerly placed in ''Bufo'' are ''Anaxyrus'' , ''Bufotes'' , ''Duttaphrynus'' , ''Epidalea'' and ''Rhinella'' .