Rhinella centralis Narvaes and Rodrigues, 2009

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Bufonidae > Genus: Rhinella > Species: Rhinella centralis

Rhinella centralis Narvaes and Rodrigues, 2009, Arq. Zool., São Paulo, 40: 46. Holotype: USNM 203600, by original designation. Type locality: "Chitre, Herrera, Panama".

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Pacific versant of Panama from Chiriquí Province in the west to central Panamá province on the east, below 200 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Panama

Endemic: Panama

Comment

In the Rhinella granulosa group according to the original publication. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 102–103 and 116, compared this species to the other Rhinella in Central America (as Chaunus and Rhinella), provided an identification key, range map, and photograph.. Guerra, Baldo, Rosset, Borteiro, and Kolenc, 2011, Zootaxa, 3092: 26–42, reported on the advertisement and release calls. Simon, Machado, and Marroig, 2016, Proc. R. Soc. London, Ser. B, Biol. Sci., 283 (20161783): 1–10, reported on skull evolution within the Rhinella granulosa group and provided a dot map. In the Rhinella marina clade, Rhinella granulosa group of Pereyra, Blotto, Baldo, Chaparro, Ron, Elias-Costa, Iglesias, Venegas, Thomé, Ospina-Sarria, Maciel, Rada, Kolenc, Borteiro, Rivera-Correa, Rojas-Runjaic, Moravec, De la Riva, Wheeler, Castroviejo-Fisher, Grant, Haddad, and Faivovich, 2021, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 447: 1–156. Rivera, Prates, Caldwell, Rodrigues, and Fujita, 2022, Heredity, 130: 14–21, reported on mtDNA phylogenetics in the Rhinella granulosa group, including this species.   

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