Physalaemus maculiventris (Lutz, 1925)
Eupemphix maculiventris Lutz, 1925, C. R. Mém. Hebd. Séances Soc. Biol. Filial., Paris, 93 (1925, vol. 2): 138. Syntypes: Not stated; by museum records including UMMZ 92444 (formerly USNM 96844), USNM 96841 (now at MNRJ), and USNM 96837-39, 96840, 96842-43 (according to Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 49). Type locality: "montagnes, près de Santos", São Paulo, Brazil. Bokermann, 1962, An. Acad. Brasil. Cienc., 34: 565, noted that the type locality was more precisely the "(. . . Alto da Serra de Cubatão, atualmente, a estação de Paranapiacaba, na Estrada de Ferro Santos a Jundiaí), Estado de São Paulo, Brasil".
Physalaemus maculiventris — Lutz, 1951, Mem. Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, 49: 669-683. Bokermann, 1962, An. Acad. Brasil. Cienc., 34: 565.
English Names
Mantagnes Dwarf Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 83).
Distribution
Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo to Santa Catarina, Brazil.
Comment
In the Physalaemus signifer group of of Nascimento, Caramaschi, and Cruz, 2005, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 63: 308. See accounts by Lutz, 1951, Mem. Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, 49: 669-683, and Heyer, Rand, Cruz, Peixoto, and Nelson, 1990, Arq. Zool., São Paulo, 31: 315-316. Removed from the synonymy of Physalaemus signifer by Bokermann, 1962, An. Acad. Brasil. Cienc., 34: 563-568, where it had been placed by Cochran, 1955 "1954", Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 206: 351.
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