Crossodactylodes septentrionalis Teixeira, Recoder, Amaro, Damasceno, Cassimiro, and Rodrigues, 2013

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Leptodactylidae > Subfamily: Paratelmatobiinae > Genus: Crossodactylodes > Species: Crossodactylodes septentrionalis

Crossodactylodes septentrionalis Teixeira, Recoder, Amaro, Damasceno, Cassimiro, and Rodrigues, 2013, Zootaxa, 3702: 461. Holotype: MZUSP 150209, by original designation. Type locality: "the summit of Peito de Moça (15° 9′ 47.68″ S, 39° 20′ 34.03″ W, 931m a.s.l.), Serra das Lontras mountain range, Arataca municipality, Bahia state, Brazil". 

English Names

Not noted. 

Distribution

Known only from the Peito de Moça peak, above 930 m elevation, in the Serra das Lontras, a mountain range emerging from the low coastal plain, Arataca municipality, Bahia state, Brazil. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

 Dias, Medeiros, Nova, and Solé, 2014, ZooKeys, 449: 119, suggested that this species may be found in the Serra Bonita of Espirito Santo, Brazil. Santos, Magalhães, Ferreira, Vittorazzi, Dias, Leite, Lourenço, Santos, Haddad, and Garcia, 2020, Herpetol. Monogr., 34: 1–38, provided an account, noting that larval morphology and advertisement call are unknown. 

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