Mertensophryne mocquardi (Angel, 1924)
Bufo Mocquardi Angel, 1924, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, 30: 270. Syntypes: MNHNP 1924.49-55, according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 14. Type locality: "mont Kinangop et des forêts inferieures du mont Kénya", Kenya.
Mertensophryne mocquardi — 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
Mocquards Toad (Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 86).
Distribution
Mount Kenya, the Kinangop Plateau, and the highlands around Nairobi, Kenya.
Comment
In the Bufo taitanus complex of Tandy and Keith, 1972, in Blair (ed.), Evol. Genus Bufo: 156. Removed from the synonymy of Bufo lonnbergi by Poynton, 1997, Afr. J. Herpetol., 46: 98-102, where it had been placed by Grandison, 1972, Zool. Meded., Leiden, 47: 34, and Tandy and Keith, 1972, in Blair (ed.), Evol. Genus Bufo: 156. Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 86-87, provided an account (as Bufo mocquardi).
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