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Mertensophryne mocquardi (Angel, 1924)
Bufo Mocquardi Angel, 1924, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, 30: 270. Syntypes: MNHNP 1924.49-55, according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 14. Type locality: "mont Kinangop et des forêts inferieures du mont Kénya", Kenya.
Mertensophryne mocquardi — 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
Mocquards Toad (Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 86).
Distribution
Mount Kenya, the Kinangop Plateau, and the highlands around Nairobi, Kenya. See comment.
Comment
In the Bufo taitanus complex of Tandy and Keith, 1972, in Blair (ed.), Evol. Genus Bufo: 156. Removed from the synonymy of Bufo lonnbergi by Poynton, 1997, Afr. J. Herpetol., 46: 98-102, where it had been placed by Grandison, 1972, Zool. Meded., Leiden, 47: 34, and Tandy and Keith, 1972, in Blair (ed.), Evol. Genus Bufo: 156. Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 86-87, provided an account (as Bufo mocquardi). Marques, Ceríaco, Blackburn, and Bauer, 2018, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 65 (Suppl. II): 62–64, provided a map for Mertensophryne aff. mocquardi for Angola and discussed the literature. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 396, regarded this nominal taxon as too insufficiently known to treat adequately in their fieldguide, a likely synonym of Mertensophryne taitana.
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