@article {57659, title = {Taxonomic status of topotypic varieties of Scinax x-signatus species assigned by Spix (1824) for the Brazilian Amazon (Anura, Hylidae, Scinaxinae)}, year = {2019}, abstract = {

Scinax x-signatus was originally described by Spix (1824) from \“ProvinciaBahiae\”. The holotype was lost during World War II and a neotype was not designated, thus leading to the synonymy of S. x-signatus to Hyla affinis and Hyla coerulea, both from Amazonas. Herein we present the phenotypic variation of morphological and morphometric characters of populations from states of Bahia and Amazonas. Additionally we provide the bioacoustic variation from state of Bahia. Bioacoustic results show an acoustically cohesive population in Bahia, however morphometric and morphological results show that these populations may not represent the same species. Our combined results show that Bahia populations of S. x-signatus are significantly different from population of Amazonas and a more comprehensive study with molecular data should corroborate that.

}, keywords = {Amazonas, Bahia, bioacoustics, Scinax ruber clade, taxonomy}, url = {http://periodicos.unisanta.br/index.php/ENPG/article/viewFile/2087/1585}, author = {Guilherme R. F. Sichieri and Marcelo Gordo and Ivan Nunes} } @article {53248, title = {Description of the advertisement calls of four species of Amazophrynella (Anura:Bufonidae)}, journal = {Zootaxa}, volume = {4459}, year = {2018}, month = {Feb-08-2019}, pages = {193}, abstract = {

Amazophrynella comprises 11 small bufonid species with a pan-Amazonian distribution (Fouquet et al. 2012a, b; Rojas et al. 2016, Rojas et al. 2018). All species inhabit the forest leaf litter, breed in seasonal puddles and are diurnally and nocturnally active (Fouquet et al. 2012b; Rojas et al. 2014; 2015; 2016). Until now only one nominal species, A. javierbustamantei, and two putative lineages\—A. moisesii (Rio Yuyapichis, Peru) and A. siona (Santa Cecilia, Ecuador)\—had their advertisement calls formally described (Duellman 1978; Schl\üter 1981; Rojas et al. 2016). Herein, we described for the first time the advertisement calls from additional four species of Amazophrynella.

}, keywords = {Amphibia, Anura, Bufonidae}, issn = {1175-5326}, doi = {10.11646/zootaxa.4459.110.11646/zootaxa.4459.1.11}, url = {https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/issue/view/zootaxa.4459.1https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4459.1.11}, author = {Vinicius Tadeu De Carvalho and Robson Waldemar {\'A}vila and KAWASHITA-RIBEIRO, RICARDO A. and Tomas Hrbek and Marcelo Gordo} } @article {53092, title = {On Rhinella gildae Vaz-Silva, Maciel, Bastos \& Pombal 2015 (Anura: Bufonidae): Phylogenetic relationship, morphological variation, advertisement and release calls and geographic distribution}, journal = {Zootaxa}, volume = {4462}, year = {2018}, month = {Mar-08-2020}, pages = {274}, abstract = {

Anurans in the Rhinella margaritifera group have a long history of taxonomic confusion, mainly by morphological similarity between species and lack of acoustic and genetic data for many of the 19 described species. Herein, we presented data for Rhinella gildae based on recently collected specimens from its type locality. We provide patterns of morphological variation, measurements, advertisement and release calls and infer the phylogenetic position of R. gildae. The species geographical distribution was updated, occurring in two Amazonian localities in Maranh\ão state, and Cerrado areas in Maranh\ão and Tocantins states and also in a rainforest enclave inside Caatinga domain in Cear\á state.

}, keywords = {Amphibia, bioacoustics, morphology, Rhinella margaritifera}, issn = {1175-5326}, doi = {10.11646/zootaxa.4462.2.9}, url = {https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/issue/view/zootaxa.4462.2}, author = {Robson Waldemar {\'A}vila and Andr{\'e} Mansonato and Renata Perez and Vinicius Tadeu De Carvalho and Igor Joventino Roberto and MORAIS, DRAUSIO HONORIO and Alexandre Pinheiro De Almeida and Rommel R. Rojas and Marcelo Gordo and FARIAS, IZENI PIRES} }