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Pleurodema bufoninum Bell, 1843
Pleurodema bufonina Bell, 1843, Zool. Voyage Beagle, Part 5: 39. Syntypes: Not designated; BMNH (2 specimens) according to Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 230, these being 1845.5.22.28 (now renumbered 1947.2.17.93) and 1933.3.7.58 (now renumbered 1947.2.17.94) according to museum records. Type locality: "Port Desire [= Puerto Deseado], in Patagonia, and high up the river Santa Cruz", Argentina.
Leiuperus salarius Bell, 1843, Zool. Voyage Beagle, Part 5: 39. Holotype: Not designated; BMNH according to Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 230; including BMNH 1947.2.17.95 (formerly 1845.5.25.31) according to museum records. Type locality: Port Desire [Puerto Deseado], Patagonia, Argentina. Synonymy by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 230.
Pleurodema bufonium — Bell, 1843, Zool. Voyage Beagle, Part 5: 39; Günther, 1859 "1858", Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 22. Unjustified emendation.
Paludicola bufonia — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 230.
Paludicola bufonina — Burmeister, 1891, An. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. Buenos Aires, 3: 251.
Pleurodema bufonia — Gorham, 1966, Das Tierreich, 85: 251.
Pleurodema bufoninum — Duellman, 1993, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 21: 128; De la Riva and Gonzales-Álvarez, 1998, Alytes, 16: 69. Justified emendation.
English Names
Gray Four-eyed Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 84).
Distribution
Patagonian Argentina and in Chile from the Península de Brunswick (Región de Magallanes) north to the Laguna del Maule (Región del Maule).
Comment
See accounts by Cei, 1962, Batr. Chile: 99–102, Cei, 1980, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Monogr., 2: 373–374. Ferraro and Casagranda, 2009, Zootaxa, 2024: 33–55, provided a detailed discussion of range in Argentina. See Lobos, Vidal-Maldonado, Correa-Quezada, Labra-Lillo, Díaz-Páez, Charrier, Rabanal, Díaz-Vidal, and Tala, 2013, Anf. Chile Conserv. 1–104, for photograph, comments on conservation status, and range.
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