Kassina somalica Scortecci, 1932
Kassina somalica Scortecci, 1932, Atti Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Milano, 71: 265. Holotype: MSNM, but possibly now lost, according to Conci, 1967, Atti Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Milano, 106: 94. Type locality: "Vilaggio Duca degli Abruzzi", southern Somalia.
Kassina senegalensis somalica — Schiøtz, 1975, Treefrogs E. Afr.: 56.
Kassina somalica — Lanza, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 175.
English Names
Somali Running Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 68).
Distribution
Arid regions of Eritrea, eastern Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, and northern Tanzania.
Comment
Resurrected from the synonymy of Kassina senegalensis by Lanza, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 175, where it had been placed by Schiøtz, 1975, Treefrogs E. Afr.: 56. Largen, 2001, Tropical Zool., 14: 353-354, discussed distribution and taxonomic problems surrounding application of this name. See account, photograph, and map for Ethiopia and Eritrea by Largen and Spawls, 2010, Amph. Rept. Ethiopia Eritrea: 124-125.
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