Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Scolecomorphus uluguruensis Barbour and Loveridge, 1928, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 50: 180. Holotype: MCZ 12193, by original designation. Type locality: "Nyingwa, Uluguru Mountains, [Morogoro Division,] Tanganyika Territory [= Tanzania]".

Scolecomorphus attenuatus Barbour and Loveridge, 1928, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 50: 181. Holotype: MCZ 12294 (not 12194 as reported in the original publication according to M.H. Wake in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 638). Type locality: "Nyingwa, Uluguru Mountains, [Morogoro Division,] Tanganyika Territory [= Tanzania]". Synonymy by Nussbaum, 1985, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 713: 23

English Names

Nyingwa Caecilian (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 26).

Uluguru Black Caecilian (Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 351).

Distribution

High elevations of the Uluguru Mountains of Tanzania.

Comment

Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 351-352, provided an account.

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