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Pleurodema diplolister (Peters, 1870)
Cystignathus diplolistris Peters, 1870, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1870: 648. Syntypes: ZMB 6952 (3 specimens) according to Bauer, Günther, and Klipfel, 1995, in Bauer et al. (eds.), Herpetol. Contr. W.C.H. Peters: 45. Type locality: "Ceára" (= Ceará), northeastern Brazil.
Paludicola diplolistris — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 233.
Pleurodema diplolistris — Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 500.
Pleurodema diplolistre — Duellman, 1993, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 21: 128. Incorrect subsequent spelling.
Pleurodema diplolister — De la Riva and Gonzales-Álvarez, 1998, Alytes, 16: 69. Gender correction.
English Names
Peters’ Four-eyed Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 84).
Distribution
Northeastern Brazil in the caatinga region from Maranhão east to Paraíba and south through Tocantins and Bahia to northeastern Goiás and northern Minas Gerais.
Comment
Silva, Santos, Alves, Sousa, and Annunziata, 2010, Sitientibus, Ser. Cienc. Biol., 7: 334-340, provided records for Piauí, Brazil. Maciel and Nunes, 2010, Zootaxa, 2640: 58, provided a dot map of the range. Andrade and Vaz-Silva, 2012, Check List, 8: 149-151, provided a range extension and dot map. Freitas, Abegg, Dias, and Moraes, 2018, Herpetol. Notes, 11: 59–72, provided a record from the Serra da Jibóia, Bahia, Brazil. Silva, Carvalho, Pereira Silva, Fadel, Dantas, Brandão, and Santana, 2020, Biota Neotrop., 20 (1: e20190838): 16, reported the species from southern state of Tocantins, Brazil, and detailed the known range. Dubeux, Silva, Nascimento, Gonçalves, and Mott, 2019, Rev. Nordestina Zool., 12: 18–52, summarized the literature on larval morphology. See Dubeux, Nascimento, Lima, Magalhães, Silva, Gonçalves, Almeida, Correia, Garda, Mesquita, Rossa-Feres, and Mott, 2020, Biota Neotrop., 20 (2: e20180718): 1–24, for characterization and identification of larvae north of the Rio São Francisco in the Atlantic Forest of northeastern Brazil. Vaz-Silva, Maciel, Nomura, Morais, Guerra Batista, Santos, Andrade, Oliveira, Brandão, and Bastos, 2020, Guia Ident. Anf. Goiás e Dist. Fed. Brasil Central: 141–142, provided an account for Goiás and the D.F., Brazil. Palmeira, Gonçalves, Dubeux, Lima, Lambertini, Valencia-Aguilar, Jenkinson, James, Toledo, and Mott, 2022, Cuad. Herpetol., 36: 65–75, reported on habitat in Natural Heritage Reserve Mata Estrela, Baía Formosa, Rio Grande do Norte state, Brazil.
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