Abstract
The Rhinella crucifer species group is currently composed by six species: Rhinella crucifer (Wied-Neuwied, 1821); R. ornata (Spix, 1824); R. henseli (A. Lutz, 1924); R. abei (Baldissera, Caramaschi & Haddad, 2004); R. pombali (Baldissera, Caramaschi & Haddad, 2004) and R. inopina Vaz-Silva, Valdujo & Pombal, 2012. Until 2012, the group was known to occur only in the Brazilian Atlantic Rain Forest from Rio Grande do Sul to Ceará, and adjacent areas in Minas Gerais and São Paulo (Baldissera et al. 2004). The recently described R. inopina revealed an allopatric distribution, occurring in forest vegetation types in eastern Cerrado (Vaz-Silva et al. 2012). Rhinella crucifer (Wied-Neuwied, 1821), occurs throughout the Atlantic Rain Forest from Rio de Janeiro to Ceará including the northeast of Minas Gerais (Baldissera et al. 2004; Frost, 2014). Only two species in the group have described calls: R. ornata as Bufo crucifer in Heyer et al. (1990) and R. pombali (Lourenço et al. 2010). The type locality of R. crucifer was informed as being between São Pedro de Alcantara in Santa Catarina and Barra da Vereda in Bahia, but as stated by Bokermann (1966) the type locality can be narrowed down to an area between the rivers Piabanda and Issara, both affluents of the Ilhéus river, approximately 40 km above the municipality of Itabuna. Herein we describe the advertisement call of R. crucifer from a population in the municipality of Igrapiúna, Bahia, Brazil, located less than 100 km from the city of Itabuna.