Petropedetes yakusini (Channing, Moyer, and Howell, 2002)
Arthroleptides yakusini Channing, Moyer, and Howell, 2002, Alytes, 20: 16. Holotype: AMNH 151342, by original designation. Type locality: "along the Njokomoni river, Udzungwa Mountains National Park, Tanzania, 07° 48′ 57″ S, 36° 51′ 15″ E".
Petropedetes yakusini — Scott, 2005, Cladistics, 21: 533. by implication.
English Names
Southern Torrent Frog (Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 261).
Distribution
Along rocky streams in the Uluguru, Udzungwa, and Mahenge Mountains, Tanzania, 300-2800 m elevation.
Comment
See account by Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 260-263 (as Arthroleptides yakusini). Loader, Poynton, and Mariaux, 2004, Afr. Zool., 39: 71-76, provided a record for Mahenge Mountain in Tanzania and detailed the range. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Arthroleptides yakusini) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 468.
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