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Sclerophrys pusilla

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Sclerophrys pusilla (Mertens, 1937)

Eastern Flat-backed Toad

Material: PEM A10283 (6b), 10284 (6b), 10288 (6a), 10289 (6a), 10292 (3), 10322 (12a), 10374 (24), 10418 (20), 10466 (6a), 10467 (22d), 10813‒10816 (30a), 11529 (62), 11531 (62), and 11598 (47); SAIAB 101021 (30a), 101006 (32), 101018 (41), 187406 (22d), 188214 (6d), 190247 (29), and 200501 (12a).

Comment: Recorded from mostly eastern Angola (Monard 1937a; Poynton and Haacke 1993; Ruas 1996). Poynton et al. (2016) revised S. pusilla for southern and eastern populations of S. maculata, which is now restricted to West Africa. For further comment see S. gutturalis.

Notes

Published as part of Conradie, Werner, Bills, Roger & Branch, William R., 2016, The herpetofauna of the Cubango, Cuito, and lower Cuando river catchments of south-eastern Angola, pp. 6-36 in Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 126) (e 126) 10 (2) on page 14, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13154851

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Biodiversity

Family
Bufonidae
Genus
Sclerophrys
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Anura
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Mertens
Species
pusilla
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Sclerophrys pusilla (Mertens, 1937) sec. Conradie, Bills & Branch, 2016

References

  • Monard A. 1937 a. Contribution a la batrachologie d'Angola. Bulletin de la Societe Neucheteloise des Sciences Naturelles 62: 5 - 59.
  • Poynton JC, Haacke WD. 1993. On a collection of amphibians from Angola, including a new species of Bufo Laurenti. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 36: 9 - 16.
  • Ruas C. 1996. Contribuicao para o conhecimento da fauna de batraquios de Angola Parte I: Familias Pipidae, Bufonidae, Microhylidae, Ranidae, Hemisidae e Arthleptidae. Garcia de Orta. Series Zoology (Lisboa) 21 (1): 19 - 41.
  • Poynton JC, Loader SP, Conradie W, Rodel M-O, Liedtke HC. 2016. Designation and description of a neotype of Sclerophrys maculata (Hallowell, 1854), and reinstatement of S. pusilla (Mertens, 1937) (Amphibia: Anura: Bufonidae). Zootaxa 4098 (1): 73 - 94.