Sooglossus thomasseti (Boulenger, 1909)
Nesomantis thomasseti Boulenger, 1909, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Ser. 2, 12: 293. Holotype: BMNH 1907.10.15.111, according to R.A. Nussbaum in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 552. Type locality: "Cascade, Mahé [Island]", Seychelles.
Sooglossus thomasseti — 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: 192.
English Names
Thomasset's Frog (Nesomantis [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 114).
Thomasset's Seychelles Fros (Nesomantis [no longer recognized]: Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 135).
Distribution
Mahé (400-994 m elevation) and Silhouette (80-771 m elevation) Islands, Seychelles, Indian Ocean.
Comment
See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Nesomantis thomasseti) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 542.
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