Crossodactylus grandis Lutz, 1951

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylodidae > Genus: Crossodactylus > Species: Crossodactylus grandis

Crossodactylus dispar grandis Lutz, 1951, O Hospital, 39: 707. Holotype: A. Lutz Collection, now in MNRJ 3285, according to Pimenta, Cruz, and Caramaschi, 2014, Arq. Zool., São Paulo, 45: 15. Type locality: "Itatiaia", Brazil; rendered as "Itatiaia Mountain . . . . at Brejo da Lapa; elevation 2,200 m., Parque Nacional do Itatiaia, Rio de Janeiro", Brazil, by Lutz, 1952, Copeia, 1952: 28. Given as "Brejo da Lapa (22°21’S, 44°44’W; 2,200 m a.s.l.; . . ., Parque Nacional do Itatiaia, Municipality of Itamonte, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil" by  Pimenta, Cruz, and Caramaschi, 2014, Arq. Zool., São Paulo, 45: 15. 

Crossodactylus grandisLynch, 1971, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 53: 165.

Common Names

Bahia Spinythumb Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 71).

Distribution

Known only from the Parque Nacional do Itatiaia, along the borders of the states of Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as well as ca.  110 km southwest, occupying a narrow portion of the Serra da Mantiqueira mountain complex from the type locality to the Municipality of Santo Antônio do Pinhal, State of São Paulo, Brazil.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

 Beçak, 1968, Carylogia, 21: 191–208, reported on the karyotype. Removed; without discussion, from the synonymy of Crossodactylus dispar by Lynch, 1971, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 53: 165; subsequently recognized by Caramaschi and Sazima, 1985, Rev. Brasil. Zool., 3: 43–49, who placed it in their Crossodactylus gaudichaudii group. See account by Pimenta, Cruz, and Caramaschi, 2014, Arq. Zool., São Paulo, 45: 15

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