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Wide-headed Viviparous Toad
Plate 1 of 1. John Lyakurwa (CC BY 4.0) · via Wikimedia
IUCN CR · Critically endangered

Wide-headed Viviparous Toad

Nectophrynoides laticeps

Nectophrynoides laticeps is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae. It is endemic to the Ukaguru Mountains of Tanzania. This toad can be distinguished from the other known species of the genus by a combination of morphological characters, and has an advertisement call different from all other recorded calls of Nectophrynoides. The dorsal and ventral coloration is variable with a pink tinge. It is ovoviviparous - the eggs remain within the mother's body until they...

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 66173.