Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Bufo pygmaeus Myers and Carvalho, 1952, Zoologica, New York, 37: 1. Holotype: Stated to be deposited in the MNRJ. Considered likely to be MNRJ 2339 by Lavilla, 1994 "1992", Acta Zool. Lilloana, 42: 66; considered to be MNRJ 2339 by Narvaes and Rodrigues, 2009, Arq. Zool., São Paulo, 40: 18. Type locality: "São João da Barra, at the mouth of the Rio Parahyba (right bank), State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil".

Bufo pygmaeus — Cei and Roig, 1964, Not. Biol. Fac. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., Corrientes, Zool., 4: 14. Cei, 1980, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Monogr., 2: 197.

Bufo granulosus pygmaeus — Gallardo, 1965, Pap. Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 17: 72. Gallardo, 1965, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 134: 121.

Chaunus pygmaeus — 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 pygmaea — Chaparro, Pramuk, and Gluesenkamp, 2007, Herpetologica, 63: 211. by implication; Narvaes and Rodrigues, 2009, Arq. Zool., São Paulo, 40: 1-73.

English Names

Rio Parahyba Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 43).

Distribution

Southeastern coastal Brazil in the states of Rio de Janeiro and Espírito Santo.

Comment

See accounts (as Bufo) by Cei, 1980, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Monogr., 2: 197-200. Yanosky, Dixon, and Mercolli, 1993, Bull. Maryland Herpetol. Soc., 29: 160-171, and Yanosky, Dixon, and Mercolli, 1993, Bull. Maryland Herpetol. Soc., 29: 66, reported this species in sympatry with Rhinella fernandezae and Rhinella granulosa. See Rhinella bergi, an Argentinian species formerly confused with Rhinella pygmaea. Izecksohn and Carvalho-e-Silva, 2001, Anf. Municipio Rio de Janeiro: 30, provided a brief account and photo. Silva, Carvalho-e-Silva, and Carvalho-e-Silva, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 97, provided the record for Espírito Santo. Narvaes and Rodrigues, 2009, Arq. Zool., São Paulo, 40: 1-73, revised the Rhinella granulosa group and provided an account and map. Silveira, Salles, and Pontes, 2009, Check List, 5: 749-752, provided a range extension and commented on and mapped the range.

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