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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Goutte S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6381079 | biostudies-other | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
ZooKeys 20190212 824
A new species of <i>Phrynobatrachus</i> 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 males, 20.3 ± 0.9 mm for females), a slender body with long legs and elongated fingers and toes, a golden coloration, a completely hidden tympanum, and a marked canthus rostralis. The phylogeneti ...[more]