Brachycephalus mariaeterezae Bornschein, Morato, Firkowski, Ribeiro and Pie, 2015

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Brachycephaloidea > Family: Brachycephalidae > Genus: Brachycephalus > Species: Brachycephalus mariaeterezae

Brachycephalus mariaeterezae Bornschein, Morato, Firkowski, Ribeiro and Pie in Ribeiro, Bornschein, Belmonte-Lopes, Firkowski, Morato, and Pie, 2015, PeerJ, 3 (e1011): 4. Holotype: MHNCI 9811, by original designation. Type locality: "Reserva Particular do Patrimˆonio Natural Caetezal, top of the Serra Queimada (26° 06′ 51″ S, 49°03′ 45″ W; 1,270 m a.s.l.), municipality of Joinville, state of Santa Catarina, southern Brazil". Zoobank publication registration: 09E2E09E-65EC-414F-96DC-1D5C27655D0C

English Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Known only from the type locality (in cloud forest at the top of the Serra Queimada, municipality of Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil, 1265 to 1270 m elevation). 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

In the Brachycephalus pernix group according to the original publication. Condez, Monteiro, and Haddad, 2017, Zootaxa, 4290: 395–400, suggested that this form requires taxonomic reassessment due to problems in the original diagnosis and description; see response from Pie, Ribeiro, and Bornschein, 2017, Zootaxa, 4350: 587–589. 

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