Probreviceps Parker, 1931
Probreviceps Parker, 1931, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 10, 8: 262. Type species: Breviceps macrodactylus Nieden, 1926, by original designation.
English Names
Forest Rain Frogs (Lambiris, 1990 "1989", Monogr. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat. Torino, 10: 69).
Big-fingered Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 92).
Forest Frogs (Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 230).
Primitive Rain Frogs (Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 134).
Distribution
Montane forests of Tanzania and Zimbabwe.
Comment
See Poynton and Broadley, 1985, Ann. Natal Mus., 26: 515, for short discussion of taxonomic characters. Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 230, noted an undescribed species (the Ukaguru Forest Frog) from the Ukaguru Mountains of Tanzania, for which they provided an account on page 234-235. Menegon, Doggart, and Owen, 2008, Acta Herpetol., Firenze, 3: 107-127, reported an undescribed species from the Nguru Mountains of eastern Tanzania.
Contained taxa
- Probreviceps durirostris Loader, Channing, Menegon, and Davenport, 2006
- Probreviceps loveridgei Parker, 1931
- Probreviceps macrodactylus (Nieden, 1926)
- Probreviceps rhodesianus Poynton and Broadley, 1967
- Probreviceps rungwensis Loveridge, 1932
- Probreviceps uluguruensis (Loveridge, 1925)
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