Coastal Tree Toad

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– Rio de Janeiro: MNRJ 22065 - 22067, EI 1963 - 1967, EI 4016 - 4022, EI 4193 - 4194, EI 4203, EI 4948 - 4949, Parque Nacional da Floresta da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro.

A new species of Dendrophryniscus, Jiménez de la Espada, 1871 (Amphibia, Anura, Bufonidae) from the atlantic rain forest of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

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Neotype. MNRJ 91627, adult male, collected at Açude da Solidão (22 º 57 ’ S, 43 º 17 ’ W, Datum WGS 84; 410 m above sea level), Parque Nacional da Tijuca, Municipality of Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, by A. L. Peracchi and E. Izecksohn, on 11 February 1961. Jiménez de la Espada (1870) did not designate the type specimens for D. brevipollicatus. Frost (2019) stated that the types were presumably in the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain (MNCN). However, according to the curator of the herpetological collection at MNCN, there are not extant type specimens of D. brevipollicatus. Based on the Article 75 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN 1999), we here designate a neotype for the species. The original type locality of D. brevipollicatus was quoted as Hab. in Brasil; prope Rio de Janeiro, in monte Corcovado (Jiménez de la Espada 1870), and given as Corcovado, Rio de Janeiro, Guanabara by Bokermann (1966). The current neotype designation sets the type locality for D. brevipollicatus in the same general original region, in the Parque Nacional da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. Diagnosis. The species is characterized by: (1) m

Taxonomic review of Dendrophryniscus brevipollicatus Jiménez de la Espada, 1870, with revalidation of D. imitator (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920) and D. lauroi Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926, and description of four new related species (Anura, Bufonidae)