Amietophrynus villiersi (Angel, 1940)
Bufo villiersi Angel, 1940, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 2, 12: 238. Holotype: MNHNP 1939.130 according to Grandison in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 64. Type locality: "Djuttitsa (Monts Bamboutos); alt. 2.000 mčtres", Cameroun.
Amietophrynus villiersi — 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
Villiers' Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 44).
Distribution
Mountains of western Cameroon in apparently disjunct populations, 1200-2500 m.
Comment
Discussed by Perret, 1972, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 84: 130-139, who distinguished it from Bufo funereus and Bufo regularis. Tentatively referred to the Bufo funereus complex by Tandy and Keith, 1972, in Blair (ed.), Evol. Genus Bufo: 158, and at one time synonymized with Bufo regularis by Perret, 1966, Zool. Jahrb., Jena, Abt. Syst., 93: 320. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Bufo villiersi) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 193.
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