Breviceps fichus Channing and Minter, 2004
Breviceps fichus Channing and Minter, 2004, Afr. J. Herpetol., 53: 148. Holotype: MHNG 2645.38, by original designation. Type locality: "Kigwembimbi, Iringa District, Tanzania".
English Names
Highland Rain Frog (Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 217).
Distribution
Grasslands above 1500 m elevation in the Iringa region of Tanzania, possibly to the West Usambara Mountains 400 km to the northeast.
Comment
See accounts by Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 217-218, and Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 112-113. See comments on range based on call recordings by Loader, Poynton, Lawson, Blackburn, and Menegon, 2011, Fieldiana, Life Earth Sci., 4: 95.
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