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Rhinella dapsilis (Myers and Carvalho, 1945)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Bufonidae > Genus: Rhinella

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Bufo dapsilis Myers and Carvalho, 1945, Bol. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, N.S., Zool., 35: 10. Holotype: MNRJ A840, by original designation. Type locality: "Bom Jardim, near Benjamin Constant, at the mouth of the Rio Javary, on the Peruvian border of the state of Amazonas, Brazil".

Rhinella dapsilis — 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: 366.

English Names

Bom Jardim Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 41).

Distribution

Amazonian Colombia (Amazonia and Caquetá), Brazil (Benjamin Constant), Peru (central Amazonian), and easternmost Ecuador.

Comment

See Dixon, 1976, Herpetol. Rev., 7: 172, for discussion. Miyata, 1982, Smithson. Herpetol. Inform. Serv., 54: 3, reported this species for Ecuador without mentioning material. See comment under Rhinella margaritifera.

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