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Issue: Vol. 1508 No. 1: 18 Jun. 2007
Type: Articles
Published: 2007-06-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1508.1.3
Page range: 61–68
Abstract views: 32
PDF downloaded: 1

New species of toad, genus Frostius Cannatella, 1986, from the Atlantic Rain  Forest of Bahia, Brazil (Amphibia, Anura, Bufonidae)

Departamento de Vertebrados, Museu Nacional/UFRJ, Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, 20940-040 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
Departamento de Vertebrados, Museu Nacional/UFRJ, Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, 20940-040 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
Amphibia Anura Bufonidae Frostius Taxonomy Atlantic Rain Forest southern Bahia

Abstract

A new species of the previously monotypic bufonid genus Frostius is described from Atlantic Rain Forest fragments in the southern region of the State of Bahia, Brazil. The new species is distinguished from F. pernambucensis by life colors of body and iris, length and width of digits, development of apical discs, and size and shape of tympanum. New locality records extend the distribution of the genus 105 km to the north (to the State of Paraíba), and 190 km to the south (southern region of the State of Bahia).

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