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A new genus and species of brevicipitine frog (Amphibia Anura Microhylidae) from high altitude in the mountains of Ethiopia

 

作者: M.J. Largen,   R.C. Drewes,  

 

期刊: Tropical Zoology  (Taylor Available online 1989)
卷期: Volume 2, issue 1  

页码: 13-30

 

ISSN:0394-6975

 

年代: 1989

 

DOI:10.1080/03946975.1989.10539423

 

出版商: Taylor & Francis Group

 

关键词: Amphibia;Anura;Microhylidae;Brevicipitinae;new genus;new species;Ethiopia

 

数据来源: Taylor

 

摘要:

A new genas and species,Balebreviceps hillmani, is described from a forested locality high in the mountains of Ethiopia, where it is isolated, both geographically and ecologically, from related forms in eastern and southern Africa. The new taxon seems most closely allied toProbrevicepsParker 1931, but exhibits a number of morphological characteristics which appear somewhat intermediate between those ofProbrevicepsand the more specialised genusBrevicepsMerrem 1820. It is distinguished from all other brevicipitine microhylids by the presence of posteriorly curved clavicles; the complete absence of middle ear elements; the structure of the palate; the unique position of the outer toe, which is perhaps related to the elongation of the proximal epiphysis of the corresponding metatarsal; and by a striking aposematic colour pattern. There is circumstantial evidence thatBalebrevicepsresemblesProbrevicepsandBrevicepsin having a terrestrial life cycle, but that fossorial tendencies are perhaps not strongly developed inB. hillmani.

 

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