Physalaemus albonotatus (Steindachner, 1864)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Leptodactylidae > Subfamily: Leiuperinae > Genus: Physalaemus > Species: Physalaemus albonotatus

Physolaemus albonotatus Jan, 1857, Cenni Mus. Civ. Milano: 52. Type(s): MSNM. Type locality: Not stated. Nomen nudum, likely in this synonymy (DRF), attributed to Tschudi and Fitzinger, presumably based on jar label names.

Leiuperus albonotatus Steindachner, 1864, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 14: 275. Type(s): Not designated; presumably originally NHMW but not noted in recent type lists; presumably destroyed in WWII. UFMT A 10553 designated neotype by Cardozo, Tomatis, Duport-Bru, Kolenc, Borteiro, Pansonato, Confalonieri, Lourenço, Haddad, and Baldo, 2023, Herpetol. Monogr., 37: 104. Type locality: "Caiçara, [Caceres,] Matogrosso, Pará" (Pará, in error), Brazil. Restricted to "Caiçara, Cáceres, Mato Grosso", Brazil by Bokermann, 1966, Lista Anot. Local. Tipo Anf. Brasil.: 70, who noted that some of the original type material is referable to Physalaemus ephippifer. Neotype from "Fazenda Baía das Pedras (16°27′59″S; 58°09′09″W), northern Pantanal, municipality of Cáceres, Mato Grosso State, Brazil". 

Gomphobates albonotatus — Günther, 1865, Zool. Rec., 1: 128.

Physalaemus albonotatus — Bokermann, 1966, Lista Anot. Local. Tipo Anf. Brasil.: 70.

Physalaemus cuqui Lobo, 1993, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 7: 16. Holotype: FML 02704, by original designation. Type locality: "Angosto del Pescado, Orán, Provincia de Salta", Argentina. Synonymy by Cardozo, Tomatis, Duport-Bru, Kolenc, Borteiro, Pansonato, Confalonieri, Lourenço, Haddad, and Baldo, 2023, Herpetol. Monogr., 37: 95. 

Common Names

Menwig Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 83).

Distribution

Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, and extreme western Goiás (Brazil), throughout central and western Paraguay, and the Chacoan regions of eastern Bolivia and northern Argentina (Provinces of Jujuy, Salta, western Formosa, and Santiago del Estero).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay

Comment

As Physalaemus albonotatus: In the Physalaemus cuvieri group of Nascimento, Caramaschi, and Cruz, 2005, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 63: 308. Physalaemus albonotatus is a sibling species of Physalaemus cuvieri with which it has been commonly confused; see Barrio, 1965, Physis, Buenos Aires, 25: 421–448. Márquez, De la Riva, and Bosch, 1995, J. Zool., London, 237: 313–336, reported on vocalization in Bolivia. Köhler, 2000, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 48: 138–139, provided a brief account. See note by Herrera and Voglino, 2002, Cuad. Herpetol., 16: 91, on range in Argentina. Kehr, Schaefer, and Duré, 2004, J. Herpetol., 38: 145–148, reported on larval morphology. Brusquetti and Lavilla, 2006, Cuad. Herpetol., 20: 17, briefly discussed the range in Paraguay.Jansen, Bloch, Schulze, and Pfenninger, 2011, Zool. Scripta, 40: 567–583, noted genetic variation within this species in Bolivia. Köhler, John, and Böhme, 2006, Salamandra, 42: 21–27, provided a record for the Yungas de La Paz region of La Paz Province, Bolivia. Weiler, Núñez, Airaldi, Lavilla, Peris, and Baldo, 2013, Anf. Paraguay: 101, provided a brief account, image, and dot map for Paraguay. In the Physalaemus cuvieri clade, Physalaemus cuvieri species group, of Lourenço, Targueta, Baldo, Nascimento, Garcia, Andrade, Haddad, and Recco-Pimentel, 2015, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 92: 204–216, who also noted that cryptic species exist under this name. Schulze, Jansen, and Köhler, 2015, Zootaxa, 4016: 31–34, described, diagnosed, and pictured the larva of their Physalaemus cf. albonotatus, treated so in recognition of the lack of DNA sequence information from the type locality. Borges, Oliveira, Santos, Souza, Morais, Maciel, and Oliveira, 2019, Herpetol. Notes, 21: 901–904, reported a record from Emas National Park, Municipality of Mineiros, western Goiás, Brazil, and mapped the species' range in South America. Hepp and Pombal, 2020, Zootaxa, 4725: 1–106, discussed this species as part of a genus-wide discussion of bioacoustical traits among the species.  Cardozo, Tomatis, Duport-Bru, Kolenc, Borteiro, Pansonato, Confalonieri, Lourenço, Haddad, and Baldo, 2023, Herpetol. Monogr., 37: 95–128, discussed the extensive literature and taxonomic history (including many literature misidentifications) of this species, redescribed the species, placed Physalaemus cuqui in synonymy and partitioned out Physalaemus cristinae on the basis of molecular and acoustic differences. An updated dot map for both species was provided. 

As Physalaemus cuqui: In the Physalaemus cuvieri group according to the original publication and of Nascimento, Caramaschi, and Cruz, 2005, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 63: 308. Lobo, 1994, Cuad. Herpetol., 8: 232-233, provided records in Jujuy, Argentina. De la Riva, Köhler, Lötters, and Reichle, 2000, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 14: 43, provided the Bolivian citation. Brusquetti and Lavilla, 2006, Cuad. Herpetol., 20: 26, suggested that this species likely occurs in Paraguay. In the Physalaemus cuvieri clade, Physalaemus cuvieri species group, of Lourenço, Targueta, Baldo, Nascimento, Garcia, Andrade, Haddad, and Recco-Pimentel, 2015, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 92: 204–216, who suggested on the basis of molecular data that this taxon is imbedded within nominal Physalaemus albonotatus. Pérez Iglesias and Natale, 2013, Cuad. Herpetol., 27: 173–76, provided a record for Santiago del Estero, Argentina, and discussed the range. Hepp and Pombal, 2020, Zootaxa, 4725: 1–106, discussed this species as part of a genus-wide discussion of bioacoustical traits among the species. Acosta, Alvarez, Figueira, Castro Cavicchini, Vera, Cruz, and Nuñez, 2024, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 72(e53860): 1–17, reported on projected changes, via niche modeling, in range due to climate change.  

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