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". Urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 250B70C4-8FB0-44B6-9D05-CC2955E0748F

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. 

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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