Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Atelopus moreirae Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920, Rev. Mus. Paulista, São Paulo, 12: 307. Syntypes: MNRJ 500 (according to Miranda-Ribeiro, 1955, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 42: 408) and MZUSP 718 (according to M.S. Hoogmoed in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 68). Type locality: "Itatiaya", Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Corrected to "Parque Nacional de Itatiaia . . . . planalto do Itatiaia a cerca de 2.400 metros de altitude" by Bokermann, 1966, Lista Anot. Local. Tipo Anf. Brasil.: 14.

Dendrophryniscus moreirae — Ahl, 1938, Zool. Anz., 124: 158.

Atelopus moreirae massarti Cochran, 1948, Bull. Mus. R. Hist. Nat. Belg., 24: 1. Holotype: IRSNB I.G. 9308. Reg. 57 (A), by original designation; subsequently reported as IRSNB 1.061 by Lang, 1990, Doc. Trav., Inst. R. Sci. Nat. Belg., 59: 6. Type locality: "Castanhal Grande near Obidos, Grâo Parâ, Brazil". Status rejected by Langone, 2006 "2005", Bol. Asoc. Herpetol. Esp., 16: 59-61.

Atelopus moreirae moreirae — Cochran, 1948, Bull. Mus. R. Hist. Nat. Belg., 24: 1.

Phryniscus stelzneri moreirae — Barth, 1957, Fauna do Parque Nacional de Itatiaia: 82.

Melanophryniscus moreirae — Gallardo, 1961, 1° Reunion Trab. Comun. Cienc. Nat. Geograf., Univ. Nac. Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina: 209.

English Names

Maldonado Redbelly Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 44).

Distribution

Coastal mountains of southern Brazil (Minas Gerais, São Paul, and Rio de Janeiro), 1800-2400 m.

Comment

In the Melanophryniscus moreirae group of Cruz and Caramaschi, 2003, Bol. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, N.S., Zool., 500: 1-11. A strangely disjunct population from Óbidos, Pará, Brazil, was described as a subspecies by Cochran, 1948, Bull. Mus. R. Hist. Nat. Belg., 24: 1-4. Bokermann, 1967, An. Acad. Brasil. Cienc., 39: 301-306, doubted the correctness of this locality and assumed that the specimens came from Itatiaia. See account by Cochran, 1955 "1954", Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 206: 2-4. Langone, 2006 "2005", Bol. Asoc. Herpetol. Esp., 16: 59-61, discussed and rejected subspecies. Weber, Procaci, Salles, Corrêa, and Carvalho-e-Silva, 2007, Check List, 3: 346-347, provided a record from Minas Gerais. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 612.

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