Check List 13(6): 747-750, doi: 10.15560/13.6.747
First record of Rhinella poeppigii (Tschudi, 1845) in Brazil (Anura, Bufonidae)
Nathocley Mendes Venâncio‡, Marco Antonio de Freitas§, Arthur Diesel Abegg|, Marcelo Nogueira de Carvalho Kokubum¶‡ Faculdade META-FAMETA, Rio Branco, Brazil§ Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade, ESEC Murici, Murici, Brazil| Instituto Butantan, Laboratório Especial de Coleções Zoológicas, São Paulo, Brazil¶ Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Patos, Brazil
Corresponding author: Marco Antonio de Freitas ( philodryas@hotmail.com ) Academic editor: Thiago Ribeiro de Carvalho © 2017 Nathocley Mendes Venâncio, Marco Antonio de Freitas, Arthur Diesel Abegg, Marcelo Nogueira de Carvalho Kokubum. 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:
Venâncio NM, Freitas MA, Abegg AD, Kokubum MNC (2017) First record of Rhinella poeppigii (Tschudi, 1845) in Brazil (Anura, Bufonidae). Check List 13(6): 747-750. https://doi.org/10.15560/13.6.747 |  |
Abstract
Rhinella poeppigii, member of the Rhinella marina group, which currently consists of 11 species, inhabits primarily cloud forests in the central Andes of Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia, reaching lowlands adjacent to the Andes, at elevations of 260–1800 m. This work presents the first record of R. poeppigii in Brazil, from the municipality of Assis Brasil, in the state of Acre. This record extends the distribution of the species 242 km northeast of the nearest record in Explorer’s Inn, Madre de Dios province, Peru.
Keywords
Acre; Amazon Rainforest; geographic distribution