Werneria

Werneria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Bufonidae
Genus:	Werneria Poche, 1903
Species
6 species; see table.
Synonyms
Stenoglossa Andersson, 1903

Werneria (smalltongue toads) is a genus of fairly small true toads found near fast-flowing steams in Middle and West Africa with the greatest species richness in the Western High Plateau of Cameroon.^[1]^[2] They are generally dark brownish or blackish and have a snout–to-vent length between 3 and 5 cm (1.2–2.0 in).^[1] The species generally have small distributions and are considered threatened.^[1]

Species

Binomial name and author^[2]	Common Name
Werneria bambutensis (Amiet, 1972)	Bamboutos smalltongue toad
Werneria iboundji Rödel, Schmitz, Pauwels & Böhme, 2004
Werneria mertensiana Amiet, 1976	Mertens' smalltongue toad
Werneria preussi (Matschie, 1893)	Buea smalltongue toad
Werneria submontana Rödel, Schmitz, Pauwels & Böhme, 2004
Werneria tandyi (Amiet, 1972)	Tandy's smalltongue toad

References

1 2 3 Mark-Oliver Rödel, Andreas Schmitz, Olivier S.G. Pauwels, & Wolfgang Böhme, 2004 Revision of the genus Werneria Poche, 1903, including the descriptions of two new species from Cameroon and Gabon (Amphibia: Anura: Bufonidae) Zootaxa 720: 1–28
1 2 Frost, Darrel R. (2016). "Werneria Poche, 1903". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 7 July 2016.

External links

AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. 2008. Berkeley, California: Werneria. AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/. (Accessed: May 8, 2008).
eol – Encyclopedia of Life taxon Werneria at http://www.eol.org.
ITIS – Integrated Taxonomic Information System on-line database Taxon Werneria at http://www.itis.gov/index.html. (Accessed: May 8, 2008).
GBIF – Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxon Werneria at http://data.gbif.org/welcome.htm

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