Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Bufo taitanus uzunguensis Loveridge, 1932, Occas. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 8: 44. Holotype: MCZ 16383, by original designation. Type locality: "Kigogo, Uzungwe Mountains, southern Tanganyika Territory [Tanzania]".

Bufo uzunguensis — Grandison, 1972, Zool. Meded., Leiden, 47: 35.

Mertensophryne uzunguensis — 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

Uzungwe Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 44).

Udzungwa Toad (Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 97).

Distribution

Swampy grassland of southwestern Tanzania above 1800 m in the Udzungwa Mountains and the Southern Highlands.

Comment

Grandison, 1972, Zool. Meded., Leiden, 47: 35, considered Bufo uzunguensis distinct from Bufo taitanus, although Tandy and Keith, 1972, in Blair (ed.), Evol. Genus Bufo: 156, considered Bufo uzunguensis a subspecies of Bufo taitanus. Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 97-98, provided an account. Poynton, Menegon, and Salvidio, 2005, Afr. J. Herpetol., 54: 159-170, discussed the species and its systematic complexities. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Bufo uzunguensis) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 193.

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