Description of the Tadpole of Ptychadena uzungwensis (Amphibia: Anura: Ptychadenidae) from the Southern Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania

Hendrik Müller; Joanna G. Larson

doi:10.1670/13-077

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Hendrik Müller,^1,2,* Joanna G. Larson^2,3

¹1Institut für Spezielle Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie mit Phyletischem Museum, Friedrich Schiller
²2Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 USA
³4Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, Ann A

^*Corresponding Author. Email: hendrik.mueller@uni-jena.de

Abstract

The tadpole of Ptychadena uzungwensis is described from material collected at Mufindi, southern Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania. We provide a detailed description of the tadpole based on an ontogenetic series, including color photographs of living specimens and buccopharyngeal morphology. Identity was confirmed by rearing tadpoles through metamorphosis and through DNA bar coding. The tadpole has a keratodont formula of 1/2 and generally resembles other species of Ptychadena. Diagnostic features of known tadpoles of East African species of Ptychadena are provided and discussed.

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Hendrik Müller and Joanna G. Larson "Description of the Tadpole of Ptychadena uzungwensis (Amphibia: Anura: Ptychadenidae) from the Southern Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania," Journal of Herpetology 48(3), 284-290, (1 September 2014). https://doi.org/10.1670/13-077

Accepted: 1 September 2013; Published: 1 September 2014

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