Cacosternum plimptoni Channing, Brun, Burger, Febvre, and Moyer, 2005
Cacosternum plimptoni Channing, Brun, Burger, Febvre, and Moyer, 2005, Afr. J. Herpetol., 54: 140. Holotype: MHNG 2661.18, by original designation. Type locality: "Musabi Plain (02° 17′ 16″ S; 34° 28′ 16″ E; 1297 m), in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania".
English Names
Plimpton's Dainty Frog (original publication).
Distribution
Oromia Region of Ethiopia; northern Tanzania and the highlands of Kenya.
Comment
Indistinguishable morphologically from Cacosternum boettgeri according to the original publication. Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 263-264, noted a then-unnamed species, "Plimpton's Dainty Frog", and for which they provided an account. Zimkus, 2008, Herpetol. Rev., 39: 233, provided records for the Oromia region of Ethiopia and discussed briefly the taxonomic issues.
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