Callulina shengena, Loader & Gower & Ngalason & Menegon, 2010

Loader, Simon P., Gower, David J., Ngalason, Wilirk & Menegon, Michele, 2010, Three new species of Callulina (Amphibia: Anura: Brevicipitidae) highlight local endemism and conservation plight of Africa’s Eastern Arc forests, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160 (3), pp. 496-514 : 502

CALLULINA SHENGENA SP. NOV.

( FIGS 1 , 3 , 5B , 6–8 , TABLE 1, 2)

Holotype: MTSN 9285, adult (gravid) female, collected at Chome Forest Reserve , South Pare Mountains (04°17′42.907″S, 37°56′18.612″E) by MM on 12 March 2008. This specimen has been sequenced for 12S and 16 S. Good condition, with midventral incision into coelom, and incision around left and right tympanic region.

Figures

Figure 1. Map of the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania showing the distribution of Callulina. Inset map (bottom left) showing the distribution of South Pare species Callulina stanleyi sp. nov. (elevational range of 1200–1600 m), and Callulina shengena sp. nov. (elevational range of 1920–2100 m).

Figure 3. Dorsal, ventral, and laterial views, and ventral aspect, of hands and feet of the holotype of Callulina shengena sp. nov., MTSN 9285.

Figure 5. Colour in life of Callulina laphami sp. nov. (top left), Callulina shengena sp. nov. (bottom left and right), and Callulina stanleyi sp. nov. (top right).

Figure 6. Snout–urostyle length in Callulina, showing mean, minimum, and maximum values.