Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Alytes obstetricans maurus Pasteur and Bons, 1962, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 87: 71. Holotype: MNHNP 5960, by original designation. Type locality: "Talass n 'Tane (Rif près de Bab-Taza)", Morocco.

Alytes (Alytes) obstetricans maurus — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 12. Llorente, Montori, Santos, and Carretero, 1995, Atlas Amf. Rept. Catalunya Andorra: 59;

Alytes (Baleaphryne) maurus — Donaire-Barroso and Bogaerts, 2003, Butll. Soc. Catalana Herpetol., 16: 25. Martínez-Solano, Gonçalves, Arntzen, and García-París, 2004, J. Biogeograph., 31: 610.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Western and central Rif and nearby Middle Atlas mountains in Morocco, 200-2000 m elevation.

Comment

Treated as a subspecies of Alytes obstetricans (and comcomitantly imbedded in that literature) until suggested to be possibly a distinct species by Llorente, Montori, Santos, and Carretero, 1995, Atlas Amf. Rept. Catalunya Andorra: 59; this was subsequently formalized and substantiated by Donaire-Barroso and Bogaerts, 2003, Butll. Soc. Catalana Herpetol., 16: 25-140 (who provided an extensive account), and Martínez-Solano, Gonçalves, Arntzen, and García-París, 2004, J. Biogeograph., 31: 610. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 614-615.

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