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Poyntonophrynus parkeri (Loveridge, 1932)
Bufo parkeri Loveridge, 1932, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 72: 382. Holotype: MCZ 16330, by original designation. Type locality: "swamped flats below Mangasini Village, Usandawi, Tanganyika Territory [Tanzania]".
Poyntonophrynus parkeri — 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
Parker's Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 43).
Mangasini Toad (Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 88 [alternative name]).
Distribution
Lake Natron Basin of Tanzania and Kenya, in sparsely wooded grassland.
Comment
Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 88-89, provided an account.
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