Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Physalaemus centralis Bokermann, 1962, Rev. Brasil. Biol., 22: 216. Holotype: WCAB 8057, by original designation; now MZUSP. Type locality: "Xingu, rio Coluene, Mato Grosso, Brasil".

English Names

Central Dwarf Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 83).

Distribution

Atlantic Forest Domain of Minas Gerais, D.F., Mato Grosso, and São Paulo, Brazil; northeastern Paraguay; Departamento Beni, Bolivia.

Comment

In the Physalaemus cuvieri group of Nascimento, Caramaschi, and Cruz, 2005, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 63: 308. De la Riva, Köhler, Lötters, and Reichle, 2000, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 14: 58, and Köhler, 2000, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 48: 69, consider this species possibly to occur in Bolivia. Padial and Köhler, 2001, Bol. Asoc. Herpetol. Esp., 12: 6-8, provided a Bolivian record. Kokubum and Menin, 2002, Herpetol. Rev., 33: 62, discussed the range in Brazil. Brandão, Duar, Brito, and Sebben, 1997, Herpetol. Rev., 28: 93, reported the species in the vicinity of Brasilia, D.F., Brazil. Brusquetti and Lavilla, 2006, Cuad. Herpetol., 20: 17, briefly discussed the range in Paraguay. Jansen, Bloch, Schulze, and Pfenninger, 2011, Zool. Scripta, 40: 567-583, suggested on the basis of molecular data the existence of unnamed cryptic species, possibly two, in Bolivia.

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