Brachycephalus sulfuratus Condez, Monteiro, Comitti, Garcia, Amaral, and Haddad, 2016

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

Brachycephalus sulfuratus Condez, Monteiro, Comitti, Garcia, Amaral, and Haddad, 2016, Zootaxa, 4083: 42. Holotype: CFBH 39137, by original designation. Type locality: "Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas Ambientais da Univille, Vila da Glória, Distrito do Saí (26°13'39"S, 48°41'31"W, 123 m above sea level, Datum WGS 84), município de São Francisco do Sul, State of Santa Catarina, Brazil". Zoobank publication registration: BC6C492F-57E4-4AF9-B5CA-BA74084CC6F0

English Names

None noted. 

Distribution

States of São Paulo, Paraná, and Santa Catarina, Brazil, and it is apparently widely distributed, occurring from the sea level up to 1000 m. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

Most similar to Brachycephalus didactylus, Brachycephalus hermogenesi, and Brachycephalus pulex according to the original publication, where, in addition, the advertisement call was detailed. Bornschein, Ribeiro, Teixeira, Belmonte-Lopes, Moraes, Corrêa, Maurício, Nadaline, and Pie, 2021, PeerJ, 9 (e10983): 1–42, reported that this species may only be diagnosed from Brachycephalus hermogenesi by advertisement call or molecular markers. 

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