Systematics of 'little brown frogs' from East Africa: Recognition of Phrynobatrachus scheffleri and description of a new species from the Kakamega Forest, Kenya (amphibia: Phrynobatrachidae)

Salamandra

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 24-26

  Schick, Susanne ^a   Zimkus, Breda M ^b   Channing, Alan ^c   Köhler, Jörn ^d   Lötters, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^d Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt   (Germany)

Author keywords

Afrotropics; Anura; Bioacoustics; Molecular genetics; P. Scheffleri; Phrynobatrachus kakamikro new species; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; PHRYNOBATRACHUS; PHRYNOBATRACHUS MABABIENSIS;

EID: 77449143329     PISSN: 00363375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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