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Hylodes meridionalis (Mertens, 1927)
Elosia nasus meridionalis Mertens, 1927, Bl. Aquar. Terrarienkd., Stuttgart, 38: 288. Holotype: SMF 21759 according to Mertens, 1967, Senckenb. Biol., 48(A): 39. Type locality: "Wasserfall in 900 m höhe, 3 km nordwestlich von Sao Francisco de Paula, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasilien".
Elosia meridionalis — Mertens, 1967, Senckenb. Biol., 48(A): 39.
Hylodes meridionalis — Lynch, 1971, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 53: 167.
English Names
Rio Grande Tree Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 81).
Distribution
Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina, Brazil.
Comment
In the Hylodes nasus group according to Heyer, 1982, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 95: 377-385. Transferred to the Hylodes lateristrigatus group by Pombal, Feio, and Haddad, 2002, Herpetologica, 58: 462. Weber and Caramaschi, 2013, Zootaxa, 3635: 557-568, reported on comparative larval morphology of the species. Lingnau, Zank, Colombo, and Kwet, 2013, Stud. Neotrop. Fauna Environ., 48: 76-80, reported on vocalization with special reference to nocturnal calling. Noguiera-Costa and Wachlevski, 2015, Zootaxa, 4032: 199–202, reported on larval morphology and provided a record for Santa Catarina, Brazil.
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