Check List 13(4): 11-15, doi: 10.15560/13.4.11
Local extinction of Melanophryniscus montevidensis (Anura: Bufonidae) in the Argentine Pampas
Federico L. Agnolin‡, Elián L Guerrero§‡ Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”, Buenos Aires, Argentina§ Museo de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina
Corresponding author: Federico L. Agnolin ( fedeagnolin@yahoo.com.ar ) Academic editor: Ross MacCulloch © 2017 Federico L. Agnolin, Elián L Guerrero. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Agnolin F, Guerrero E (2017) Local extinction of Melanophryniscus montevidensis (Anura: Bufonidae) in the Argentine Pampas. Check List 13(4): 11-15. https://doi.org/10.15560/13.4.11 |  |
Abstract
Melanophryniscus montevidensis inhabits sandy dunes along the Rio de la Plata shoreline and Atlantic coast in Uru-guay and southern Brazil. Here we report 2 specimens from different localities at eastern Buenos Aires province, Argentina, that were collected prior to the 1970s. Melanophryniscus montevidensis probably inhabited patchy sand dune environments in Buenos Aires. It is possible that the disappearance of natural environments (including dunes) in the Argentine Pampas resulted in the local extinction of M. montevidensis, a species sensitive to habitat fragmentation and anthropic modifications.
Keywords
Sand dunes; Melanophryniscus montevidensis; local extinction; Buenos Aires; Argentina.