Churamiti maridadi Channing & Stanley, 2002
Beautiful metallic toad
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Missing (Lyakurwa et al., 2025)
Last record: July 1999 (specimens); January 2004 (observations) (both Lyakurwa et al., 2025)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)
Distribution & Habitat
Ukaguru Mountains, eastern Tanzania
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Channing, A. and Stanley, W. T. (2002). A new tree toad from the Ukaguru Mountains, Tanzania. African Journal of Herpetology: 121-128.
Other references:
Channing, A. and Howell, K. M. (2006). Amphibians of East Africa. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main.
Channing, A., Rödel, M.-O. and Channing, J. (2012). Tadpoles of Africa. The Biology and Identification of All Known Tadpoles of Sub-Saharan Africa. Frankfurt Contributions of Natural History 35.
Howell, Kim and Channing, Alan. (2004). Churamiti maridadi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2004: e.T54802A11203290. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T54802A11203290.en. Accessed on 07 August 2026.
IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group. (2015). Churamiti maridadi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015: e.T54802A13323134. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T54802A13323134.en. Accessed on 07 August 2026.
Lyakurwa, J. V., Mollel, P., Liedtke, H. C., Mwamgeni, A., Wilangali, Y., Christopher, J., Ngalason, W. and Loader, S. P. (2025). Churamiti maridadi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2025: e.T54802A234376178. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2025-2.RLTS.T54802A234376178.en. Accessed on 07 August 2026.