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Bibliography 



Dubois (1982 

 Stemmler (1972) . 



Fig. 16. Distribution of Biifo bufo. 



Pasteur and Bons (1959; 



Schneider (1974 



Bufo brongersmax Hoogmoed, 197 2 



Figs. 6a, 17-11 



Bufo brongersmai Hoogmoed, 1972. Zool . Meded., Leiden, 47: 50. 



Diagnosis 



Small toad with small green patches on brownish grey 

 dorsum. Pale vertebral line absent. Paratoid glands small, 

 somewhat longer than wide, nearly round. Most distal 

 subarticular tubercle of fourth digit double. No tibial glands. 

 Tympanum nearly round. Head very flat and without warts. 



Size 



Snout-vent lengths to 51 mm in males and 48 mm in females. 



Description 



Snout round. Head 2.5 times as long as high. Horizontal 

 diameter of eye is slightly less than distance between eye and 

 snout and 2.5 times horizontal diameter of the tympanum. 

 Interorbital space flat. Subarticular tubercles on digits 

 single except for distal ones often double. Subarticular 

 tubercles on toes single except for double distal one of third 

 and distal two of the fourth. 



Dorsum pale brown grey with small green patches and black 

 spots. Paratoid glands, upper eyelids and dorsal warts reddish. 

 Venter white with green spots. Iris green. 



Variation 



The paratoid glands measure in length 1 to 1.8 times their 

 width. No geographical variation has been described. 



