Amietophrynus brauni (Nieden, 1911)
Bufo brauni Nieden, 1911 "1910", Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1910: 450. Type(s): Not stated; presumably ZMB. Type locality: "Amani in Deutschostafrika" (= Usambara Mountains, northeastern Tanzania).
Amietophrynus brauni — 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
Dead-leaf Toad (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 37).
Braun's Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 40; Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 69).
Distribution
East and West Usambara, Uluguru, Nguru, and Udzungwa mountains, eastern Tanzania, ca. 750-1800 m elevation.
Comment
In the Bufo regularis group of Martin, 1972, in Blair (ed.), Evol. Genus Bufo: 60, and of Tandy and Keith, 1972, in Blair (ed.), Evol. Genus Bufo: 159. Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 69-70, and Pickersgill, 2007, Frog Search: 517-519, provided accounts (as Bufo brauni). See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Bufo brauni) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 179. Menegon, Doggart, and Owen, 2008, Acta Herpetol., Firenze, 3: 107-127, provided a record for the Nguru Mountains of eastern Tanzania. Sprague and Zimkus, 2011, Afr. J. Herpetol., 60: 70-77, reported on larval morphology.
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