Hoplophryne Barbour and Loveridge, 1928
Hoplophryne Barbour and Loveridge, 1928, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 50: 253. Type species: Hoplophryne uluguruensis Barbour and Loveridge, 1928, by original designation.
English Names
African Banana Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 89).
Three-fingered Frogs (Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 223).
Distribution
Usambara, Uluguru, Nguru, and Magrotto mountains, Tanzania.
Comment
See accounts by Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 223-226. Menegon, Doggart, and Owen, 2008, Acta Herpetol., Firenze, 3: 107-127, reported an undescribed species from the Nguru Mountains of eastern Tanzania.
Contained taxa
- Hoplophryne rogersi Barbour and Loveridge, 1928
- Hoplophryne uluguruensis Barbour and Loveridge, 1928
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