Scolecomorphus uluguruensis Barbour and Loveridge, 1928

Class: Amphibia > Order: Gymnophiona > Family: Scolecomorphidae > Genus: Scolecomorphus > Species: Scolecomorphus uluguruensis

Scolecomorphus uluguruensis Barbour and Loveridge, 1928, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 50: 180. Holotype: MCZ 12193, by original designation. Type locality: "Nyingwa, Uluguru Mountains, [Morogoro Division,] Tanganyika Territory [= Tanzania]".

Scolecomorphus attenuatus Barbour and Loveridge, 1928, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 50: 181. Holotype: MCZ 12294 (not 12194 as reported in the original publication according to Wake, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 638). Type locality: "Nyingwa, Uluguru Mountains, [Morogoro Division,] Tanganyika Territory [= Tanzania]". Synonymy by Nussbaum, 1985, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 713: 23

English Names

Nyingwa Caecilian (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 26).

Uluguru Black Caecilian (Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 351).

Uluguru Caecilian (Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 32).

Distribution

High elevations of the Uluguru Mountains of Tanzania, 600 to 2000 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Tanzania

Endemic: Tanzania

Comment

Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 351–352, provided an account. Harper, Measey, Patrick, Menegon, and Vonesh, 2010, Field Guide Amph. E. Arc Mts. Tanzania and Kenya: 312–313, provided a brief account and photograph. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 32–33, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. Tighe, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 654: 73, briefly discussed the location of paratypes. 

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