Brachycephalus albolineatus Bornschein, Ribeiro, Blackburn, Stanley, and Pie, 2016

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Brachycephaloidea > Family: Brachycephalidae > Genus: Brachycephalus > Species: Brachycephalus albolineatus

Brachycephalus albolineatus Bornschein, Ribeiro, Blackburn, Stanley, and Pie, 2016, PeerJ, 4(e2629): 4. Holotype: MHNCI 10290, by original designation. Type locality: "Morro Boa Vista (26°30′58″ S, 49°03′14″W; 835 m a.s.l.), on the border between the municipalities of Jaraguá do Sul, and Massaranduba, state of Santa Catarina, southern Brazil". Zoobank publication registration: 32F6D8BC-7B15-4A81-BC82-D4DEE1B38DD8

English Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Known from the type locality (Morro Boa Vista, on the border between the municipalities of Jaraguá do Sul, and Massaranduba, 790 to 835 m elevation) and from Morro do Garrafão, municipality of Corupá, state of Santa Catarina, at 500–530 m, state of Santa Catarina, southern Brazil. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

In the Brachycephalus pernix group according to the original publication. Condez, Monteiro, and Haddad, 2017, Zootaxa, 4290: 395–400, suggested that this form requires taxonomic reassessment due to problems in the original diagnosis and description; see response from Pie, Ribeiro, and Bornschein, 2017, Zootaxa, 4350: 587–589. Advertisement call reported by Bornschein, Ribeiro, Rollo, Confetti, and Pie, 2018, PeerJ, 6 (e5273): 1–18. Teixeira, Ribeiro, Corrêa, Confetti, Pie, and Bornschein, 2018, Check List, 14: 1013–1016, provided the second known locality of the species. 

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