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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, 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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