Pleurodema tucumanum Parker, 1927
Pleurodema tucumana Parker, 1927, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 9, 20: 468. Holotype: BMNH 1902.7.29.75, by original designation. Type locality: "Tapia, Tucuman, Argentina, 2300 feet".
Pleurodema tucumanum — Duellman, 1993, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 21: 128. De la Riva and Gonzales-Álvarez, 1998, Alytes, 16: 69. Justified emendation.
English Names
Spotted-flanks Four-eyed Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 84).
Distribution
Central Argentina (Province of San Juan).
Comment
See Barrio, 1964, Physis, Buenos Aires, 24: 471-489, and Cei, 1980, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Monogr., 2: 382-383, for accounts. Haene, 1994, Cuad. Herpetol., 8: 23, and Baldo and Gutiérrez, 1997, Cuad. Herpetol., 11: 69-74, discussed the range and distinctiveness of this taxon. Ferraro and Casagranda, 2009, Zootaxa, 2024: 33-55, provided a detailed discussion of range in Argentina.
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