Phrynobatrachus inexpectatus Largen, 2001
Phrynobatrachus inexpectatus Largen, 2001, Tropical Zool., 14: 301. Holotype: BMNH 1975.1711, by original designation. Type locality: "70 km NW of Kebre Mengist, near Bore (06° 23′ N 38° 35′ E, 2650 m), Ethiopia".
English Names
Largen's Dwarf Puddle Frog (Largen and Spawls, 2010, Amph. Rept. Ethiopia Eritrea: 208).
Distribution
Known only from near Bore (2650 m elevation) and near Dorse (2600 m elevation) in forested southwestern Ethiopia.
Comment
In the dwarf Phrynobatrachus group according to the original publication and compared with Phrynobatrachus scapularis, Phrynobatrachus albifer, Phrynobatrachus rouxi, Phrynobatrachus ukingensis, Phrynobatrachus mababiensis, Phrynobatrachus cryptotis. Frétey, 2008, Alytes, 25: 99-17, summarized the literature. In species group B of Zimkus, Rödel, and Hillers, 2010, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 55: 883-900. See account, photograph, and map for Ethiopia by Largen and Spawls, 2010, Amph. Rept. Ethiopia Eritrea: 208-209.
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