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Issue: Vol. 2115 No. 1: 22 May. 2009
Type: Article
Published: 2009-05-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2115.1.5
Page range: 56–64
Abstract views: 49
PDF downloaded: 1

Rediscovery, resurrection and redescription of Rhinella leptoscelis (Boulenger, 1912) (Anura: Bufonidae)

Department of Evolution, genomics and Systematics, Evolutionary Biology Centre (EBC), Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18D, 75236 Uppsala, Sweden
Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Cusco, Peru. Plaza de Armas s/n (Paraninfo Universitario), Cusco, Peru
Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Department of Natural History – Zoology, Friedensplatz 1, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany
Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC; C/José Gutiérrez Abascal, 2, 28006, Madrid, Spain
Amphibia Amazon Andes Peru Bolivia Rhinella veraguensis group Rhinella margaritifera group taxonomy

Abstract

We resurrect Rhinella leptoscelis (Anura: Bufonidae) from the synonymy of R. veraguensis and redescribe it on the basis of the holotype, and recently collected specimens from Peru and Bolivia. Rhinella leptoscelis is well distinguished from all other species of the R. veraguensis group by its flat head with well developed orbitotympanic and postorbital crests, distinct tympanum, large parotoid glands, spiny tubercles on dorsal surfaces, long and slender extremities, dorsolateral row of conical, enlarged and elevated tubercles, webbing absent on fingers, basal and serrated webbing between toes, and first finger longer than second. This species is known from the humid forests of the Amazonian versant of the Andes from central Bolivia to southern Peru.

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