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Mertensophryne micranotis (Loveridge, 1925)
Bufo micranotis Loveridge, 1925, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1925: 770. Holotype: MCZ 10333, by original designation. Type locality: "Kilosa, Morogoro District, Tanganyika Territory [= Tanzania]".
Bufo micranotis micranotis — Loveridge, 1942, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 91: 387.
Bufo micranotis rondoensis Loveridge, 1942, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 91: 387. Holotype: MCZ 25090, by original designation. Type locality: "Nchingidi, 3000 feet, Rondo Plateau, Lindi Province, southeastern Tanganyika Territory". Subspecies distinction from Bufo micranotis micranotis rejected by Poynton, 1991, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 152: 461.
Mertensophryne micranotis micranotis — Tihen, 1960, Copeia, 1960: 226. Tentative placement.
Mertensophryne micranotis rondoensis — Tihen, 1960, Copeia, 1960: 226.
Mertensophryne micranotis — 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.
Common Names
Loveridges Snouted Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 44).
Woodland Toad (Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 102).
Distribution
Southeastern coastal Kenya and eastern Tanzania (including Zanzibar and Songo Songo islands), below 800 m elevation.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Kenya, Tanzania
Comment
As Bufo micronotis, placed in the Bufo taitanus complex of Tandy and Keith, 1972, in Blair (ed.), Evol. Genus Bufo: 156. See Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 102-103, for account. Channing, Rödel, and Channing, 2012, Tadpoles of Africa: 147, reported on comparative tadpole morphology. Harper, Measey, Patrick, Menegon, and Vonesh, 2010, Field Guide Amph. E. Arc Mts. Tanzania and Kenya: 122–123, provided a brief account and photograph. Spawls, Wasonga, and Drewes, 2019, Amph. Kenya: 13, provided a range map for Kenya, photograph, and brief characterization. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 88–89, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map.
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