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Leptodactylus elenae Heyer, 1978
Leptodactylus elenae Heyer, 1978, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 29: 45. Holotype: LACM 92096, by original designation. Type locality: "Argentina: Salta, Embarcación".
English Names
Marbled White-lipped Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 81).
Distribution
Gran Chaco of Argentina (Jujuy and Salta), Bolivia (Beni, La Paz, and Santa Cruz), and adjacent areas in Paraguay, and central Brazil (Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul); one record for Corrientes, northeastern Argentina.
Comment
In the Leptodactylus fuscus group of Heyer, 1978, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 29: 1–85. Cei, 1987, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 21: 223–225, noted that the species reviewed by Cei, 1980, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Monogr., 2: 338–340, under the name Leptodactylus mystaceus was of this species. Márquez, De la Riva, and Bosch, 1995, J. Zool., London, 237: 313–336, reported on vocalization in Bolivia. Reviewed by Heyer and Heyer, 2002, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 742: 1–5. Zaracho and Alvarez, 2005, FACENA, 21: 135, provided a record for the Parque Nacional Mburucuy, Corrientes, Argentina. Brusquetti and Lavilla, 2006, Cuad. Herpetol., 20: 13, briefly discussed range in Paraguay. Jansen, Bloch, Schulze, and Pfenninger, 2011, Zool. Scripta, 40: 567–583, suggested on the basis of molecular evidence that at least one unnamed species may exist in Bolivia. In the Leptodactylus fuscus species group, Leptodactylus mystaceus complex, of de Sá, Grant, Camargo, Heyer, Ponssa, and Stanley, 2014, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 9(Spec. Issue 1): 1–123, who provided a summary of the relevant literature of this species (adult and larval morphology, identification, advertisement call, and range) on p. 29–30, and who implied that previous records from Peru are assigned to other species. Schulze, Jansen, and Köhler, 2015, Zootaxa, 4016: 72–74, described, diagnosed, and pictured the larva.
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