Amphibia, Anura, Brachycephalus didactylus (Izecksohn, 1971) and Zachaenus parvulus (Girard, 1853): distribution extension

Lívia Coco; Jane Oliveira; José Pombal Jr; Renata Pagotto; Davor Vrcibradic; Edicarlos Pralon; Carlos Rocha

doi:10.15560/8.2.242

Check List 8(2): 242-244, doi: 10.15560/8.2.242

Amphibia, Anura, Brachycephalus didactylus (Izecksohn, 1971) and Zachaenus parvulus (Girard, 1853): distribution extension

Jane C. F. de Oliveira^‡, Lívia Coco^‡, Renata Valls Pagotto^§, Edicarlos Pralon^§, Davor Vrcibradic^‡, José P. Pombal Jr^|, Carlos Frederico Duarte Rocha^‡

‡ Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil§ Associação Educacional de Vitória, Brazil| Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Corresponding author: Jane Oliveira ( janeherpeto@gmail.com )

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: Coco L, Oliveira J, Pombal Jr J, Pagotto R, Vrcibradic D, Pralon E, Rocha C (2012) Amphibia, Anura, Brachycephalus didactylus (Izecksohn, 1971) and Zachaenus parvulus (Girard, 1853): distribution extension. Check List 8(2): 242-244. https://doi.org/10.15560/8.2.242

Abstract

We report geographic range extensions for two anuran species, Brachycephalus didactylus (Bachycephalidae) and Zachaenus parvulus (Cycloramphidae), recorded during a short-term herpetofaunal survey carried out at mid-elevation (600-900 m) Atlantic Forest sites at the Serra das Torres mountains (21°00’ S, 41°13’ W), in the state of Espírito Santo, SE Brazil. These two species are reported for the first time in Espírito Santo, representing the northernmost records for both of them and raising to 135 the number of anuran species currently known to occur in the state.

Keywords

Amphibia; Anura; range extension; Espírito Santo; Brazil