Luetkenotyphlus brasiliensis (Lütken, 1851)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Gymnophiona > Family: Siphonopidae > Genus: Luetkenotyphlus > Species: Luetkenotyphlus brasiliensis

Siphonops brasiliensis Lütken, 1851, Vidensk. Medd. Dansk Naturhist. Foren., 1851: 52. Holotype: ZMUC 11 RO-237, according to Taylor, 1968, Caecilians of the World: 588; now ZMUC R. 0237 by museum records (personal commun., H. Kristensen, 24 Nov. 2010). Type locality: "Brasilien"; corrected to São Paulo, Brazil, by Taylor, 1973, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 50: 226, and this confirmed by museum records.

Dermophis brasiliensisPeters, 1880 "1879", Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1879: 938.

Siphonops confusionis Taylor, 1968, Caecilians of the World: 560. Holotype: MCZ 2482, by original designation. Type locality: "Petrópolis, [Rio de Janeiro,] Brasil". Synonymy by Nussbaum, 1986, J. Herpetol., 20: 441-444.

Luetkenotyphlus brasiliensisTaylor, 1968, Caecilians of the World: 588.

Common Names

Sao Paulo Caecilian (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 24).

Distribution

Eastern and south-central Minas Gerais (Municipality of Ritápolis) through the state of São Paulo, Brazil, southwest to Misiones Province, Argentina, and southern Paraguay.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay

Comment

Argentina record by Heer and Lanari, 1998, Herpetol. Rev., 29: 244. Brusquetti and Lavilla, 2006, Cuad. Herpetol., 20: 7, briefly discussed the range in Paraguay. Weiler, Núñez, Airaldi, Lavilla, Peris, and Baldo, 2013, Anf. Paraguay: 25, provided a brief account, image, and dot map for Paraguay. Mott, Moura, Maciel, and Feio, 2011, Phyllomedusa, 10: 153–163, reported on morphological variation and range. Maciel, Castro, Sturaro, Silva, Ferreira, Santos, Risse-Quaioto, Barboza, Oliveira, Sampaio, and Schneider, 2019, Zool. Anz., 281: 76–83, confirmed with molecular markers the placement of the species in LuetkenotyphlusHudson, Oliveira, Lopez, and Sousa, 2024, Herpetol. Rev., 55: 18, provided a record from the Municipality of Ritápolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil, and discussed the literature of the known distribution. 

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