Rhinella veredas (Brandão, Maciel, and Sebben, 2007)

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

Chaunus veredas Brandão, Maciel, and Sebben, 2007, J. Herpetol., 41: 11. Holotype: CHUNB 40282. Type locality: "Trijunção Farm (currently Parque Nacional Grande Sertão Veredas), Cocos Municipality, Bahia State, Brazil (14° 49′ S; 45° 58′ W)".

Rhinella veredasChaparro, Pramuk, and Gluesenkamp, 2007, Herpetologica, 63: 205, by implication.

Chaunus veredasSavage and Bolaños, 2009, Zootaxa, 2005: 4, by implication.

Common Names

None noted.

Distribution

Sandy-substrate regions in the status of Piauí and Bahia as well as northeastern Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

In the Rhinella marina group (as Chaunus) according to the original publication. Maciel, Collevatti, Colli, and Schwartz, 2010, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 57: 787-797, reported on the molecular systematics of the Rhinella marina group, including this species. In the Rhinella marina clade, Rhinella marina 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.

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