Mertensophryne micranotis (Loveridge, 1925)
Bufo micranotis Loveridge, 1925, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1925: 770. Holotype: MCZ 10333, by original designation. Type locality: "Kilosa, Morogoro District, Tanganyika Territory [= Tanzania]".
Bufo micranotis micranotis — Loveridge, 1942, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 91: 387.
Bufo micranotis rondoensis Loveridge, 1942, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 91: 387. Holotype: MCZ 25090, by original designation. Type locality: "Nchingidi, 3000 feet, Rondo Plateau, Lindi Province, southeastern Tanganyika Territory". Subspecies distinction from Bufo micranotis micranotis rejected by Poynton, 1991, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 152: 461.
Mertensophryne micranotis micranotis — Tihen, 1960, Copeia, 1960: 226. Tentative placement.
Mertensophryne micranotis rondoensis — Tihen, 1960, Copeia, 1960: 226.
Mertensophryne micranotis — 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: 365.
English Names
Loveridges Snouted Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 44).
Woodland Toad (Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 102).
Distribution
Southeastern Kenya and eastern Tanzania (including Zanzibar and Songo Songo islands).
Comment
As Bufo micronotis, placed in the Bufo taitanus complex of Tandy and Keith, 1972, in Blair (ed.), Evol. Genus Bufo: 156.
See Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 102-103, for account.
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