Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Bufo steindachneri Pfeffer, 1893, Jahrb. Hamburg. Wiss. Anst., 10: 103. Holotype: ZMH, presumed lost. Type locality: "Kihengo", Tanzania. The correctness of this type locality doubted by Pickersgill, 2007, Frog Search: 547.

Bufo incertus Scortecci, 1933, Atti Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Milano, 72: 43. Holotype: MSNM 670, but possibly now lost, according to Conci, 1967, Atti Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Milano, 106: 94. Type locality: "Villagia Duca degli Abruzzi", Somalia. Synonymy by Tandy and Keith, 1972, in Blair (ed.), Evol. Genus Bufo: 158, and Lanza, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 158.

Amietophrynus steindachneri — 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

Steindachner's Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 43).

Distribution

Humid grassland, wooded savanna, and cleared forest of northern eastern Nigeria, northern Cameroon, and southern Chad eastward through the Central African Republic, South Sudan (possibly into extreme southern Sudan), and northeastern D. R. Congo to southwestern Ethiopia and Uganda; apparently an allopatric population in coastal southern Somalia, Kenya, and northeastern Tanzania (see comment).

Comment

In the Bufo funereus group of Tandy and Keith, 1972, in Blair (ed.), Evol. Genus Bufo: 158. Confused in some literature with Bufo latifrons according to Lanza, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 158. See account by Inger, 1968, Explor. Parc Natl. Garamba, Miss. H. de Saeger, 52: 43. See Largen, 2001, Tropical Zool., 14: 324-325, for comments on distribution. Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 92-93, provided an account for East Africa and considered all records west and south of Chad to belong to another species, presumably Amietophrynus latifrons. Pickersgill, 2007, Frog Search: 546-547, provided an account and suggested that the species is absent from Tanzania. See account (as Bufo steindachneri), photograph, and map for Ethiopia and Eritrea by Largen and Spawls, 2010, Amph. Rept. Ethiopia Eritrea: 95.

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