Mertensophryne lonnbergi

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anura

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Batrachomorpha Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Anura

Familia: Bufonidae
Genus: Mertensophryne
Species: Mertensophryne lonnbergi

Name

Mertensophryne lonnbergi (Andersson, 1911)

Type locality: "Kenia [Mt. Kenya region], . . . in waterfilled elephant-tracks, 2,500 m. above the sea" and "between Blue Post and Roiru river", Kenya.

Holotype: Syntypes - BM 1911.7.7.4-5, MCZ 17804, 17830-31.

Synonyms

• Bufo lönnbergi Andersson, 1911

References

• Andersson, 1911, K. Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. Handl., 47: 35.
• Frost, D.R. 2021. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.1. Electronic Database accessible at https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/index.php. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. DOI: 10.5531/db.vz.0001 Mertensophryne lonnbergi . Accessed on 02 Apr 2008.
• World Conservation Monitoring Centre IUCN: Mertensophryne lonnbergi  (Near Threatened) (as Bufo lönnbergi)
• Koerber, S. 2009: From sponges to primates: emendation of 30 species nomina dedicated to the Swedish zoologist Einar Lönnberg. Zootaxa, 2201: 63–68. Abstract & excerpt

Vernacular names

English: Lonnbergs Toad