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Issue: Vol. 3265 No. 1: 10 Apr. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-04-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3265.1.4
Page range: 57–65
Abstract views: 91
PDF downloaded: 1

New species of the Rhinella crucifer group (Anura, Bufonidae) from the Brazilian Cerrado

Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Centro Universitário de Goiás – Uni-Anhanguera, Rua Professor Lázaro Costa, 456, CEP: 74.415-450 Goiânia, GO, Brazil Laboratório de Genética e Biodiversidade, Departamento de Biologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Campus Samambaia, Cx. Postal 131 CEP: 74.001-970, Goiânia, GO, Brazil
Departamento de Ecologia. Universidade de São Paulo. Rua do Matão, travessa 14. CEP: 05508-900, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Departamento de Vertebrados, Museu Nacional, Quinta da Boa Vista, CEP: 20940-040, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Amphibia Rhinella crucifer group Seasonally Dry Forest Cerrado Central Brazil

Abstract

A new species of Rhinella of Central Brazil from the Rhinella crucifer group is described. Rhinella inopina sp. nov. is restricted to the disjunct Seasonal Tropical Dry Forests enclaves in the western Cerrado biome. The new species is characterized mainly by head wider than long, shape of parotoid gland, and oblique arrangement of the parotoid gland. Data on natural history and distribution are also presented.

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