Pleurodema diplolister (Peters, 1870)
Cystignathus diplolistris Peters, 1870, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1870: 648. Syntypes: ZMB 6952 (3 specimens) according to Bauer, Günther, and Klipfel, 1995, in Bauer et al. (eds.), Herpetol. Contr. W.C.H. Peters: 45. Type locality: "Ceára" (= Ceará), northeastern Brazil.
Paludicola diplolistris — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 233.
Pleurodema diplolistris — Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 500.
Pleurodema diplolistre — Duellman, 1993, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 21: 128. Incorrect subsequent spelling.
Pleurodema diplolister — De la Riva and Gonzales-Álvarez, 1998, Alytes, 16: 69. Gender correction.
English Names
Peters’ Four-eyed Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 84).
Distribution
Northeastern Brazil in the caatinga region from Maranhño east to Paraíba and south through Tocantins and Bahia to northeastern Goiás and northern Minas Gerais.
Comment
Silva, Santos, Alves, Sousa, and Annunziata, 2010, Sitientibus, Ser. Cienc. Biol., 7: 334-340, provided records for Piauí, Brazil. Maciel and Nunes, 2010, Zootaxa, 2640: 58, provided a dot map of the range. Andrade and Vaz-Silva, 2012, Check List, 8: 149-151, provided a range extension and dot map.
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