Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Leptodactylus bokermanni Heyer, 1973, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 251: 31. Holotype: UMMZ 104527, by original designation. Type locality: "Paranaguá, Estado do Paraná, Brasil. Elevation 30 m."

Adenomera bokermanni — Heyer, 1974, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 253: 42.

Leptodactylus (Lithodytes) bokermanni — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 362.

English Names

Bokermann's Tropical Bullfrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 70).

Bokermann's Potter Frog (Eterovick and Sazima, 2004, Anf. Serra do Cipó: 75).

Distribution

Minas Gerais, Paraná, Rio de Janeiro, Santa Catarina, and São Paulo (states), Brazil.

Comment

This species is composed of two cryptic species according to Heyer and Maxson, 1982, in Prance (ed.), Biol. Diversification Tropics: 377. Canelas and Bertoluci, 2007, Iheringia, Zool., 97: 21-26, provided a record for the Serra do Caraça, southern end of the Serra do Espinhaço, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Brusquetti and Lavilla, 2006, Cuad. Herpetol., 20: 23, noted that Paraguayan records of this species have been subsequently reidentified as Leptodactylus diptyx. Eterovick and Sazima, 2004, Anf. Serra do Cipó: 75-76, provided a photograph and brief account.

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