Eupsophus calcaratus (Günther, 1881)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Alsodidae > Genus: Eupsophus > Species: Eupsophus calcaratus

Cacotus calcaratus Günther, 1881, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1881: 19. Holotype: BMNH 1868.9.22.8 by museum records, according to Lavilla, Nuñez, Rabanal, Langone, and de Sá, 2010, Zootaxa, 2561: 56; now registered 1947.2.20.1, according to museum records. Type locality: "Chiloé" Island, Chile.

Borborocoetes calcaratusBoulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 256.

Zachaenus roseus Cope, 1890 "1889", Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 12: 142. Holotype: USNM 15126 according to Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 81. Type locality: "Port Otway, Patagonia"; corrected to "Puerto Almirante Barroso (= Port Otway), 46°49′–75°21′, Península de Taitao, Chile" by Lavilla, Nuñez, Rabanal, Langone, and de Sá, 2010, Zootaxa, 2561: 49–58, who made the synonymy.

Eupsophus calcaratusCapurro-S., 1958, Invest. Zool. Chilen., 4: 293; Formas and Vera, 1982, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 95: 594.

Common Names

Chiloe Island Ground Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 80; IUCN, 2019).

Rosy Bug-eyed Frog (Zachaenus roseus [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 85).

Distribution

Southern Chile and adjacent Argentina (provinces of Chubut, Río Negro, and Neuquen).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Argentina, Chile

Comment

Discussed by Formas and Vera, 1982, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 95: 594–601. In the Eupsophus vertebralis group. Synonymy (with Eupsophus grayii) by Cei, 1960, Breviora, 118: 1–13, and Cei, 1962, Invest. Zool. Chilen., 8: 33. Synonymy with Eupsophus roseus by Grandison, 1961, Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Zool., 8: 128; Gorham, 1974, Checklist World Amph.: 60, and Lavilla, 1994 "1992", Acta Zool. Lilloana, 42: 84. Christie and Úbeda, 1996, Herpetol. Rev., 27: 149, provided a new record for Argentina and noted that previous records were based on Eupsophus roseus. Úbeda, 2000, Cuad. Herpetol., 14: 71–74, discussed the distribution in Argentina. Díaz-Páez and Berrios, 2003, Herpetol. Rev., 34: 380, provided a record for Isla Berta and Isla Juan Stuven, Region de Aysen, Chile. Márquez, Penna, Marques, and Amaral, 2005, Herpetol. J., 15: 257–263, reported on advertisement call. Vera Candioti, Úbeda, and Lavilla, 2005, J. Morphol., 262: 161–177, reported on larval morphology. Nuñez, Wood, Rabanal, Fontanella, and Sites, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 58: 343–352, discussed mtDNA phylogeography. See Correa-Quezada and Durán, 2019, ZooKeys, 863: 107–152, for a discussion of systematics and range. See Charrier, 2019, Anf. Bosques Centro Sur y Patagonia de Chile: 170–173, for account (morphology, habitat, natural history) and polygon distribution map. 

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