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Megaelosia goeldii (Baumann, 1912)
Hylodes goeldii Baumann, 1912, Zool. Jahrb., Jena, Abt. Syst., 33: 91. Types: Originally in NHM; current status unknown. Type locality: "Orgel-Gebirge" (= Serra dos Órgãos), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Given as "Terezópolis, Rio de Janeiro", Brazil by Bokermann, 1966, Lista Anot. Local. Tipo Anf. Brasil.: 66.
Elosia goeldii — Müller, 1927, Abh. Senckenb. Naturforsch. Ges., 40: 270.
Megalelosia goeldii — Lutz, 1930, Mem. Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, 24: 236.
Megaelosia goeldii — Cochran, 1955 "1954", Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 206: 334; Vittorazzi, Augusto-Alves, Neves-da-Silva, Carvalho-e-Silva, Recco-Pimentel, Toledo, Lourenço, and Bruschi, 2021, Salamandra, 57: 275.
Hylodes goeldii — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 437.
Common Names
Rio Big-tooth Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 82).
Distribution
Serra dos Orgãos (the north portion of the Serra do Mar mountain range) in the state of Rio de Janeiro, southeastern Brazil
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Brazil
Endemic: Brazil
Comment
See account by Heyer, Rand, Cruz, Peixoto, and Nelson, 1990, Arq. Zool., São Paulo, 31: 310–311. de Sá, Condez, Lyra, Haddad, and Malagoli, 2022, Syst. Biodiversity, 20 (1: 2039318): 1–31, noted, as part of a general revision of the family, an unnamed species (Megaelosia sp. aff. goeldi) from Trilha do Poço do Padre, next to Estacão Morumbeca, Parque Estadual do Desengano, municipality of Santa Maria Madalena, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and suggested that the record from the municipality of São José do Barreiro, state of São Paulo, Brazil, is in error.
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