Melanophryniscus atroluteus (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Bufonidae > Genus: Melanophryniscus > Species: Melanophryniscus atroluteus

Atelopus atro-luteus Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920, Rev. Mus. Paulista, São Paulo, 12: 309. Syntypes: MZUSP 814 and 55577, according to Klappenbach and Langone, 1992, An. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. Montevideo, Ser. 2, 8: 175. Type locality: "Estado do Rio Grande do Sul (Itaqui [= Itagui])", Brazil.

Melanophryniscus stelzneri atroluteusGallardo, 1961, 1° Reunion Trab. Comun. Cienc. Nat. Geograf., Univ. Nac. Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina: 209.

Melanophryniscus atroluteusKlappenbach and Langone, 1992, An. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. Montevideo, Ser. 2, 8: 175.

English Names

Uruguay Redbelly Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 44).

Distribution

In the departments of Artigas, Cerro Largo, Lavalleja, Paysandú, Salto, and Treinta y Tres, Uruguay; Provinces of Entre Rios, Misiones, and Corrientes, northeastern Argentina, as well as in northeastern and western Rio Grande do Sul and presumably southern Santa Catarina, Brazil; southern Paraguay.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay

Comment

In the Melanophryniscus stelzneri group of Cruz and Caramaschi, 2003, Bol. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, N.S., Zool., 500: 1–11. Removed from the synonymy of Melanophryniscus stelzneri by Klappenbach and Langone, 1992, An. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. Montevideo, Ser. 2, 8: 175, where it had been placed by Gallardo, 1961, 1° Reunion Trab. Comun. Cienc. Nat. Geograf., Univ. Nac. Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina: 209, and Braun and Braun, 1979, Iheringia, Zool., 54: 7–17. See Lavilla and Cei, 2001, Monogr. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat. Torino, 28: 33–34, for summary of recent literature and confusion with Melanophryniscus montevidensis. Kwet and Miranda, 2001, Herpetofauna, Weinstadt, 23: 19–27, provided an account and discussion of distribution and ecology. Langone, 1995 "1994", Mus. Damaso Antonio Larrañaga, Ser. Divulg. 5: 28–29, and Achaval and Olmos, 2003, Anf. Rept. Uruguay, ed. 2: 14, provided for the Uruguayan population a brief account. Baldo and Basso, 2004, J. Herpetol., 38: 393–403, reported on the advertisement call. Brusquetti and Lavilla, 2006, Cuad. Herpetol., 20: 20, briefly discussed the range in Paraguay. Maneyro and Kwet, 2008, Stuttgart. Beit. Naturkd., Ser. A, Neue Ser., 1: 95–121, provided comments on taxonomy, implying the possibility that Melanophryniscus atroluteus and Melanophryniscus montevidensis might be conspecific. Céspedez and Motte, 2007, FACENA, 23: 31–42, mapped the distribution in Paraguay. Baldo, Maneyro, and Laufer, 2010, Zootaxa, 2615: 66–68, reported on larval morphology. Kwet, Maneyro, Zillikens, and Mebs, 2005, Salamandra, 41: 1–18, reported on the advertisement call. Weiler, Núñez, Airaldi, Lavilla, Peris, and Baldo, 2013, Anf. Paraguay: 32, provided a brief account, image, and dot map for Paraguay. Zank, Becker, Abadie, Baldo, and Maneyro, 2014, PLoS One, E 9(4: e94625): 1–11, provided modeled distribution maps for the species under climate change. Moser, Farina, Borges-Martins, Machado, Colombo, and Tozetti, 2021, Neotrop. Biol. Conserv., 16: 443, noted that earlier records of Melanophryniscus atroluteus from the municipality of São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, actually apply to Melanophryniscus dorsalis.  

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