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Issue: Vol. 4154 No. 2: 19 Aug. 2016
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2016-08-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4154.2.7
Page range: 193–196
Abstract views: 58
PDF downloaded: 1

On the type series of Scinax perpusillus (Lutz & Lutz, 1939) (Anura: Hylidae)

Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Departamento de Biologia Animal, Laboratório de Herpetologia, Caixa Postal 74524 - CEP 23851-970 Seropédica, RJ – Brazil.
Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Departamento de Biologia Animal, Laboratório de Herpetologia, Caixa Postal 74524 - CEP 23851-970 Seropédica, RJ – Brazil.
Amphibia Museu Nacional- UFRJ Adolpho Lutz Collection Hyla perpusilla

Abstract

The literature regarding the type series of Scinax perpusillus (Lutz & Lutz, 1939) presents two distinct numbers for the holotype. In 1973, thirty-four years after the description, Bertha Lutz associated numbers to the type series. This numbering has been followed by subsequent reviewers of Scinax ever since, with exception of Peixoto (1987) who assigned another number to the holotype. Our reevaluation of the literature and examination of the type series allowed us to access that, in both cases, the numbers were incorrectly assigned to the specimens and determine the proper museum numbers for this series.

 

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