Ptychadena doro Goutte, Reyes-Velasco, Freilich, Kassie, and Boissinot, 2021

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ptychadenidae > Genus: Ptychadena > Species: Ptychadena doro

Ptychadena doro Goutte, Reyes-Velasco, Freilich, Kassie Teme, and Boissinot, 2021, ZooKeys, 1016: 123. Holotype: Sandra Goutte 328, by original designation. Type locality: "between Dembi and Gechi, Oromia, Ethiopia (8.2195°N, 36.446°E, 2064 m a.s.l.)". http://zoobank.org/CA0740EE-5B73-479B-8202-E61F1C29788A 

English Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Restricted to mid-elevations (1654 to 2318 m elevation), west of the Great Rift Valley in Ethiopia; easternmost populations around Jimma and south of Bedele; also collected west of Metu and between Metu and Tippi.  

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ethiopia

Endemic: Ethiopia

Comment

See the original publicatoin, Goutte, Reyes-Velasco, Freilich, Kassie Teme, and Boissinot, 2021, ZooKeys, 1016: 77–141, and Reyes-Velasco, Goutte, Freilich, and Boissinot, 2021, ZooKeys,  1070: 135–149, for detailed accounts, phylogenetic placement, morphometrics, advertisement call, habitat, and placement in their Ptychadena neumanni group of the Ptychadena neumanni complex. Lyra, Kirchhof, Goutte, Kassie Teme, and Boissinot, 2023, Frontiers in Genetics, 14(1215715): 1–14, reported on the diversification and biogeography on the Ethiopian highlands, provided a dot map, and considered the species to be in the Ptychadena neumanni clade. 

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