A new species of puddle frog from an unexplored mountain in southwestern Ethiopia (Anura, Phrynobatrachidae, Phrynobatrachus)
A new species of Phrynobatrachus is described from the unexplored and isolated Bibita Mountain, southwestern Ethiopia, based on morphological characters and sequences of the mitochondrial rRNA16s. The new species can be distinguished from all its congeners by a small size (SVL = 16.8 ± 0.1 mm for ma...
Main Authors: | Sandra Goutte, Jacobo Reyes-Velasco, Stephane Boissinot |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Pensoft Publishers
2019-02-01
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Series: | ZooKeys |
Online Access: | https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/31570/ |
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