Talk:Usambara torrent frog/GA1

GA Review

Passed. Jens Lallensack (talk) 23:51, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Nominator: Olmagon (talk · contribs) 23:57, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: Jens Lallensack (talk · contribs) 00:03, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm on it now. --Jens Lallensack (talk) 00:03, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Though the exact location where the specimens were found is unknown, Nieden believed it was in the Usambara Mountains. – Only the locality of the Martienssen specimen is unknown, the others are given as "Usambara".

Changed it to reflect this Olmagon. (talk) 23:34, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

link "webbing"

Linked. Olmagon. (talk) 23:34, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

a prominent canthal ridge. – It would help to add an explanation of the term in brackets (optional).

Added. Olmagon. (talk) 23:34, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

the forests of the Usambara Mountains still require further strengthening and expansion of protection – not sure what "strengthening of forests" means?

I meant the protection needed strengthening rather than the actual forests themselves, reworded that sentence to make that clearer. Olmagon. (talk) 23:34, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The article Usambara Mountains has a photo of the forest and a map; both might be nice additions to the article (optional)

Added the photo. Olmagon. (talk) 23:34, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I wonder what the tadpoles eat, sitting on the rocks? Any information on that?

Couldn't find anything on what exactly they eat, just Drewes et el (1989) mentioning a "specific" function of feeding indicated by the unusual jaw sheaths. Olmagon. (talk) 23:37, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I am supposed to do spot-checks, and I did. Looks mostly good, I only found two minor quibbles:

The hind legs are long – Implies "long compared to other frogs"; but I can't find this inference in the source.

To my knowledge they aren't particularly long among frogs I just meant compared to itself, removed the bit about it being long then. Olmagon. (talk) 23:39, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The tympana are distinctly visible, each a little less than half as wide as the eyes – the source says a little less than 2/3 as wide.

I had copypasted the text from the German source and machine translated it when working on this, seems that it wrongly recognized the 2/3 as 1/2, fixed this now. Olmagon. (talk) 23:39, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That's all! Very solid work, the above issues are nothing but nitpicks. I also did a copy edit. --Jens Lallensack (talk) 00:57, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.