Quote Originally Posted by Kevin1 View Post
Thanks a lot Terry This will help us all a great deal.


As for the "tanzanian subspecies" I'm thinking someone must have been very confused(me!). I was told about it when I first really started to research pyxies. So I started searching for information on it. Needless to say I didn't find much..For awhile I thought it might be P.Adspersus Angusticeps...Now I think the people that told me about this "Tanzanian subspecies" were just as confused as I. lol
Hi Kevin,

Ahhh, the famous P. adspersus angusticeps It seems that in 1982, some scientist named C. R. Parry decided to revise the genus Pyxicephalus. See if this is confusing:

Pyxicephalus adspersus edulis (Parry, 1982)
Pyxicephalus adspersus angusticeps (Parry, 1982)
Pyxicephalus adspersus (Parry, 1982)

So is P. edulis a subspecies or a distinct species or even the same species as P. adspersus?

Alan Channing (1994) says that P. edulis differs by its call, behavior, smaller size, shorter dorsal ridges and smoother skin. Lambiris (1989) considers P. edulis a subspecies and points out the following distinctive features: white spot on tympanum, bars on the upper lip and interorbital stripe (as mentioned in my article).