Nectophrynoides laticeps
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| Nectophrynoides laticeps Channing, Menegon, Salvidio & Akker, 2005 |
Nectophrynoides laticeps is a species of toad in the Bufonidae family. It is endemic to the Ukaguru Mountains of Tanzania. This toad can be distinguished from the other known species of the genus by a combination of morphological characters, and has an advertisement call different from all other recorded calls of Nectophrynoides. The dorsal and ventral coloration is variable with a pink tinge. It is ovoviviparous - the eggs remain within the mother's body until they hatch.
[edit] References
- Frost, Darrel R. 2007. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 5.1 (10 October, 2007). Electronic Database accessible at http://research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia/index.php. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. Nectophrynoides laticeps access date=2008-04-16
- Alan Channing, Michele Menegon, Sebastiano Salvidio, and Scott Akker, 2005: A new forest toad from the Ukaguru Mountains, Tanzania (Bufonidae: Nectophrynoides), African Journal of Herpetology, 2005 54(2): 149-157. [1]
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