Odontophrynus toledoi Moroti, Pedrozo, Severgnini, Augusto-Alves, Dena, Martins, Nunes, and Muscat, 2022

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Odontophrynidae > Genus: Odontophrynus > Species: Odontophrynus toledoi

Odontophrynus toledoi Moroti, Pedrozo, Severgnini, Augusto-Alves, Dena, Martins, Nunes, and Muscat, 2022, Eur. J. Taxon., 847: 166. Holotype: ZUEC-AMP 24833, by original designation. Type locality: "BRAZIL . . .; São Paulo State, São José dos Campos, São Francisco Xavier, collected at Rio Manso; 22°54′05″ S, 45°52′43″ W; 1042 m a.s.l.; datum WGS-84". Zoobank publication registration: 03800D6D-8743-4194-BEB9-12264B3BC41C 

English Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Southern portion of the Serra da Mantiqueira and adjacent areas that share species with the mountain range, such as Jundiaí and Atibaia, São Paulo and  Minas Gerais, Brazil. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

A tetraploid species formerly confused with Odontophrynus americanus diagnosed in the original publication on the basis of 16s mtDNA, larval and adult morphology, osteology, and advertisement call. 

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