Altiphrynoides osgoodi (Loveridge, 1932)
Bufo osgoodi Loveridge, 1932, Occas. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 8: 47. Holotype: FMNH 12529, by original designation. Type locality: "Ethiopia . . . . If it is a mountain form it probably came from the Gedeb Mountains of Bali, just south of the western branch of the Webi Shebili River, . . . . in deep forest and . . . from eight to ten thousand feet".
Nectophrynoides osgoodi — Grandison, 1978, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 11: 136.
Spinophrynoides osgoodi — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 26.
Altiphrynoides osgoodi — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 363.
English Names
Osgood's Ethiopian Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 45).
Distribution
Mountains of south-central Ethiopia (Arussi, Balé, Sidamo, and Gamo Gofa, provinces), 1950-3520 m elevation.
Comment
See Largen, 2001, Tropical Zool., 14: 326-327, for comments on distribution. Tandy and Keith, 1972, in Blair (ed.), Evol. Genus Bufo: 156, considered Bufo osgoodi to be a member of the Bufo taitanus complex (now part of Mertensophryne). See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Spinophrynoides osgoodi) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 204. See account (as Spinophrynoides osgoodi), photograph, and map for Ethiopia by Largen and Spawls, 2010, Amph. Rept. Ethiopia Eritrea: 98-99.
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