Rhinella henseli (Lutz, 1934)
Bufo crucifer var. Henseli Lutz, 1934, Mem. Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, 28: 128, 153. Types: Not designated, presumably based on specimens now in the MNRJ. Type locality: "São Bento, Santa Catarina", Brazil.
Bufo henseli — Baldissera, Caramaschi, and Haddad, 2004, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 62: 265.
Chaunus henseli — 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: 364. Savage and Bolaños, 2009, Zootaxa, 2005: 4. By implication.
Rhinella henseli — Chaparro, Pramuk, and Gluesenkamp, 2007, Herpetologica, 63: 211. by implication.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Atlantic rainforest from southern Santa Catarina to the coast of the state of Rio Grande do Sul (including the plateau and interior), Brazil; possibly to be found in extreme northern Uruguay.
Comment
Removed from the synonymy of Rhinella crucifer by Baldissera, Caramaschi, and Haddad, 2004, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 62: 265, who provided an account (as Bufo henseli). Maneyro and Kwet, 2008, Stuttgart. Beit. Naturkd., Ser. A, Neue Ser., 1: 95-121, briefly summarized the taxonomic, conservation, and geographic status, as well as a summary of what is know of natural history.
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