Megaelosia Miranda-Ribeiro, 1923
Megaelosia Miranda-Ribeiro, 1923, Rev. Mus. Paulista, São Paulo, 13: 819. Type species: Megaelosia bufonia Miranda-Ribeiro, 1923, by monotypy. Giaretta, Bokermann, and Haddad, 1993, J. Herpetol., 27: 276-285, noted that the specimen studied by Miranda-Ribeiro are actually of the species Hylodes goeldii Baumann, 1912, so, under Art. 70.3 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (1999) fixing by implication the type species to be Hylodes goeldii Baumann, 1912.
Magaelosia Miranda-Ribeiro, 1923, Rev. Mus. Paulista, São Paulo, 13: 819. Alternative spelling.
English Names
Big-tooth Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 82).
Distribution
Serra do Mar and Serra da Mantiqueira, southeastern Brazil.
Comment
Most recently reviewed by Giaretta, Bokermann, and Haddad, 1993, J. Herpetol., 27: 276-285. See comment under Hylodes.
Contained taxa
- Megaelosia apuana Pombal, Prado, and Canedo, 2003
- Megaelosia bocainensis Giaretta, Bokermann, and Haddad, 1993
- Megaelosia boticariana Giaretta and Aguiar, 1998
- Megaelosia goeldii (Baumann, 1912)
- Megaelosia jordanensis (Heyer, 1983)
- Megaelosia lutzae Izecksohn and Gouvêa, 1987
- Megaelosia massarti (De Witte, 1930)
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