Leptodactylus gualambensis Gallardo, 1964

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Leptodactylidae > Subfamily: Leptodactylinae > Genus: Leptodactylus > Species: Leptodactylus gualambensis

Leptodactylus gualambensis Gallardo, 1964, Rev. Mus. Argent. Cienc. Nat. Bernardino Rivadavia, Cienc. Zool., 9: 46. Holotype: MACN 9752, by original designation (but see comment by Brusquetti, Bueno-Villafañe, Caballero-Gini, Pinheiro, Netto, Burgos-Gallardo, Fernández Ríos, Bernabé Cardozo, and Baldo, 2025, Vert. Zool., Senckenberg, 75: 344. Type locality: "Argentina, Salta, Urundel, 43 Km al Oeste de Orán, Río Santa María". 

Common Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Central and western Paraguay and northern Argentina to eastern Bolivia and southern Mato Grosso and southwestern Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, in Dry Chaco habitat. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Leptodactylus fuscus by Brusquetti, Bueno-Villafañe, Caballero-Gini, Pinheiro, Netto, Burgos-Gallardo, Fernández Ríos, Bernabé Cardozo, and Baldo, 2025, Vert. Zool., Senckenberg, 75 325, on the basis of molecular markers, advertisement call, morphology, and morphometrics; the synonymy had been made previously by Heyer, 1968, Copeia, 1968: 160–162, and Heyer, 1978, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 29: 34. Brusquetti et al. (2025) provided a dot distribution map. The unnamed sister taxon of Leptodactylus gualambensis, Leptodactylus aff. fuscus is retained in the Leptodactylus fuscus record for purposes of this checklist. See Leptodactylus fuscus record for access to literature of possible import from prior to the partition. 

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