Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Cystignathus macroglossus Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 8: 405. Holotype: MNHNP 166, according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 31. Type locality: "Montévideo", Uruguay.

Rana (Limnomedusa) macroglossus — Fitzinger, 1843, Syst. Rept.: 31.

Limnomedusa macroglossa — Cope, 1866, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 6: 94.

Litopleura maritimum Jiménez de la Espada, 1875, Vert. Viaje Pacif. Verif. 1862-1865: 82. Holotype: Presumably deposited in MNCN. Type locality: "república del Uruguay . . . cerca Montevideo, en la llamada Playa Ramirez", Uruguay. Synonymy by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 250.

Leptodactylus nova-teutoniae Ahl, 1936, Veröff. Deutsch. Kolon. Uebersee Mus., Bremen, 1: 391. Types: UMB, status unknown; SMF 22470 (presumably exchanged from UMB) designated lectotype by Mertens, 1937, Zool. Anz., 118: 145. Type locality: "Nova Teutonia, [Santa Catarina,] Brasilien". Synonymy by Mertens, 1937, Zool. Anz., 118: 145.

Limnomedusa misionis Schmidt, 1944, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 29: 153-160. Holotype: FMNH 9407, by original designation. Type locality: "Rio Paranay, Misiones Territory, Argentina". Synonymy by Barrio, 1971, Physis, Buenos Aires, 30: 667.

English Names

Rapids Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 82).

Distribution

Southern Brazil (Paraná to Rio Grande do Sul), Uruguay, and northeastern Argentina; northern Paraguay.

Comment

See Gudynas and Gehrau, 1981, Iheringia, Zool., 60: 81-99, and Klappenbach and Langone, 1992, An. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. Montevideo, Ser. 2, 8: 201-202, for distribution and comments. See Cei, 1980, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Monogr., 2: 318-320, for account. Achaval and Olmos, 2003, Anf. Rept. Uruguay, ed. 2: 34, provided a brief account and photograph for the Uruguay population. 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: 210, transferred Limnomedusa from Leptodactylidae to Cycloramphidae. Brusquetti and Lavilla, 2006, Cuad. Herpetol., 20: 16, provided the first record from Paraguay. Conte, Garey, Lingnau, Silva, Armstrong, and Hartmann, 2009, Check List, 5: 202-209, discussed the range in Paraná, Brazil.

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