Leptodactylus elenae Heyer, 1978
Leptodactylus elenae Heyer, 1978, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 29: 45. Holotype: LACM 92096, by original designation. Type locality: "Argentina: Salta, Embarcación".
English Names
Marbled White-lipped Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 81).
Distribution
Gran Chaco of Argentina and Bolivia, and adjacent areas to Paraguay, central Brazil, and eastern Peru.
Comment
In the Leptodactylus fuscus group of Heyer, 1978, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 29: 1-85. Cei, 1987, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 21: 223-225, noted that the species reviewed by Cei, 1980, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Monogr., 2: 338-340, under the name Leptodactylus mystaceus was of this species. Reviewed by Heyer and Heyer, 2002, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 742: 1-5. Brusquetti and Lavilla, 2006, Cuad. Herpetol., 20: 13, briefly discussed range in Paraguay. Jansen, Bloch, Schulze, and Pfenninger, 2011, Zool. Scripta, 40: 567-583, suggested on the basis of molecular evidence that at least one unnamed species may exist in Bolivia.
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