Cycloramphus heyeri Segalla, Berneck, Canedo, Caramaschi, Cruz, Garcia, Grant, Haddad, Lourenço, Mângia, Mott, Nascimento, Toledo, Werneck, and Langone, 2021

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Cycloramphidae > Genus: Cycloramphus > Species: Cycloramphus heyeri

Cycloramphus carvalhoi Heyer, 1983, Arq. Zool., São Paulo, 30: 297. Holotype: AL-MNRJ 132, by original designation. Type locality: "Brasil; Rio de Janeiro, Brejo da Lapa, Alto Itatiaia, 2200 m". Date of receipt October 1983 according to Segalla, Berneck, Canedo, Caramaschi, Cruz, Garcia, Grant, Haddad, Lourenço, Mângia, Mott, Nascimento, Toledo, Werneck, and Langone, 2021, Herpetol. Brasil., 10: 124, who noted this as a junior subjective homonym of Cycloramphus carvalhoi Izecksohn 1983. 

Cycloramphus heyeri Segalla, Berneck, Canedo, Caramaschi, Cruz, Garcia, Grant, Haddad, Lourenço, Mângia, Mott, Nascimento, Toledo, Werneck, and Langone, 2021, Herpetol. Brasil., 10: 124. Replacement name for Cycloramphus carvalhoi Heyer, 1983, a junior subjective homonym of Cycloramphus carvalhoi (Izecksohn, 1983). 

English Names

Carvalho's Button Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 71).

Distribution

Known from the type locality (Alto Itatiaia, Rio de Janeiro) and about 200 km to the southwest in the Municipality of Campos do Jordão (São Paulo), Brazil.

Geographics occurrence

Natural resident: Brazil

Endemic to the political unit: Brazil

Comment

Martins, Gomes, Bernardo, and Suarez, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 473-474, provided the record from the state of São Paulo, Brazil (as Cycloramphus carvalhoi).

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