Check List 16(1): 219-222, doi: 10.15560/16.1.219

First country record of Trachycephalus mesophaeus (Hensel, 1867) (Amphibia, Anura, Hylidae) in Argentina

Jordi A. Garcia-Marsà^‡, Federico L. Agnolín^‡§, Julia S. D’Angelo^‡

‡ Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”, Buenos Aires, Argentina§ Universidad Maimónides, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Corresponding author: Jordi A. Garcia-Marsà ( jagmdarwinista@gmail.com )

Academic editor: Raúl Maneyro

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Citation: Garcia-Marsà JA, Agnolín FL, D’Angelo JS (2020) First country record of Trachycephalus mesophaeus (Hensel, 1867) (Amphibia, Anura, Hylidae) in Argentina. Check List 16(1): 219-222. https://doi.org/10.15560/16.1.219

Abstract

We report the first record of the Porto Alegre Golden-eyed Treefrog, Trachycephalus mesophaeus (Hensel, 1867), from Argentina based on a single specimen collected in the 1980s at Las Lomitas, province of Formosa, northeastern Argentina. This new record, within the Chacoan Biogeographical Region, is separated by more than 1300 km from its main range in the Atlantic Forest.

Keywords

Amazon Basin, Atlantic Forest ecoregion, Chacoan ecoregion, geographical distribution, Pleistocene