Frostius pernambucensis (Bokermann, 1962)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Bufonidae > Genus: Frostius > Species: Frostius pernambucensis

Atelopus pernambucensis Bokermann, 1962, Neotropica, 8: 42. Holotype: WCAB 3511, by original designation; now in MZUSP. Type locality: "Dois Irmãos, alrededores de Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil".

Frostius pernambucensisCannatella, 1986, Herpetologica, 42: 198.

Common Names

Frost’s Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 44).

Distribution

Known from the type locality (near Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil), the Environmental Protection Area of Catolé and Fernão Velho, Alagoas, the Murici Forest Reserve, Alagoas, the Municipality of João Pessoa, Paraíba, and the Municipality of Santa Terezinha-Pedra Branca (Serra da Jibóia), Bahia, Brazil  

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

See Peixoto and Freire, 1998, Herpetol. Rev., 29: 172, for Alagoas, Brazil, record. Pimenta and Caramaschi, 2007, Zootaxa, 1508: 64, provided a record from the Municipality of João Pessoa, State of Paraíba, northeastern Brazil. Juncá, Röhr, Lourenço-de-Moraes, Santos, Protázio, Mercês, and Solé, 2012, Acta Herpetol., Firenze, 7: 189-201, reported on the advertisement call. Juncá, 2006, Biota Neotrop., 6: 1–17, briefly summarized the presence of this species in the Serra da Jibóia region, Bahia, Brazil, and its habitat. Juncá and Freitas, 2001, Herpetol. Rev., 32: 270–271, reported the species from the Municipality of Santa Terezinha-Pedra Branca (Serra da Jibóia), Bahia, Brazil. Dubeux, Silva, Nascimento, Gonçalves, and Mott, 2019, Rev. Nordestina Zool., 12: 18–52, summarized the literature on larval morphology. See Dubeux, Nascimento, Lima, Magalhães, Silva, Gonçalves, Almeida, Correia, Garda, Mesquita, Rossa-Feres, and Mott, 2020, Biota Neotrop., 20 (2: e20180718): 1–24, for characterization and identification of larvae north of the Rio São Francisco in the Atlantic Forest of northeastern Brazil. Reported from the Environmental Protection Area of Catolé and Fernão Velho, Alagoas, Brazil, by Dubeux, Nascimento, Gonçalves, and Mott, 2021, Pap. Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 61 (e20216176): 1–10, who provided a key to the frogs of that region. Dubeux, Nascimento, and Dias, 2023, Zoomorphology, 143: 159–187, reported on larval morphology and anatomy. 

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