A new tree toad from the Ukaguru mountains, Tanzania

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A new tree toad from the Ukaguru mountains, Tanzania

Published in: The Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa
Volume 51 , issue 2 , 2002 , pages: 121–128
DOI: 10.1080/21564574.2002.9635467
Author(s): Alan Channing , , University of the Western Cape, South Africa , W. T. Stanley , , Field Museum of Natural History, USA
Keywords: Tanzania , bufonid , new genus , new species , Ukaguru , Africa
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Abstract

A new bufonid from the Ukaguru Mountains, Tanzania is described. We erect a new genus to accommodate this taxon. It is a large tree toad with well‐developed discs and an omosternum, but lacks parotid glands, tympanum and columella.
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