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Issue: Vol. 4392 No. 3: 12 Mar. 2018
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2018-03-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4392.3.10
Page range: 598–600
Abstract views: 70
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On the taxonomic status of Bufo brasiliensis Laurenti, 1768

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Evolução, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Goiás, 74690-900 Goiânia, GO, Brazil. Laboratório de Herpetologia e Comportamento Animal, Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Goiás, 74690-900 Goiânia, GO, Brazil.
Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Parque Quinta da Boa Vista s/nº, São Cristóvão, 20940-040 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Laboratório de Herpetologia e Comportamento Animal, Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Goiás, 74690-900 Goiânia, GO, Brazil.
Amphibia

Abstract

The name Bufo brasiliensis was proposed by Laurenti (1768) and, for a long time, has been associated with the widely distributed Marine toad - Rhinella marina (Linnaeus, 1758). However, we found several inconsistences in this taxonomic proposal and disagree with it. We argue that the specimen illustrated does not correspond to any bufonid form (even less the Neotropical genus Rhinella) based on the following argumentation presented below. Laurenti (1768) used Seba’s (1734) illustration in plate 73 (Fig. 1) to establish the name B. brasiliensis.

 

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