(Amphibia, Anura, Hylodidae), an Endemic Anuran from the Atlantic Rainforest in Southern Brazil
Herpetology Notes, volume 10: 397-402 (2017) (published online on 22 July 2017) New records and geographic distribution of the torrent frog Hylodes meridionalis (Mertens, 1927) (Amphibia, Anura, Hylodidae), an endemic anuran from the Atlantic Rainforest in southern Brazil Natália Dallagnol Vargas¹,*, Michelle Abadie¹, Patrick Colombo², Juliana Conte Zanotelli¹ and Márcio Borges-Martins¹ The knowledge on the geographical distribution is the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (Mertens, 1927; usually the only information available to assess the Braun and Braun, 1980; Kwet and Di-Bernardo, 1999; conservation status of many species (e.g. Fontana et al., Pombal et al., 2002; Vilella et al., 2004; Deiques et al., 2003; Machado et al., 2008). This is particularly relevant 2007; Lima and Colombo, 2008; Lema and Martins, for species with restrict distribution or few available data 2011; Lingnau et al., 2013) and municipalities of Bom about its biology (IUCN, 2015). Torrent frogs of the Jardim da Serra, Lauro Müller, Praia Grande, Timbé do genus Hylodes Fitzinger, 1826 occur mainly associated Sul, Treviso and Urussanga in the state of Santa Catarina with high-gradient streams in Brazilian Atlantic Forest (Pombal et al., 2002; Toledo et al., 2006; Lucas, 2008). (Haddad and Pombal, 1995; Frost, 2015), which is one Recent field expeditions revealed the occurrence of of the most endangered ‘biodiversity hotspots’ in the Hylodes meridionalis in several new localities, suggesting world (Myers et al., 2000). the need for a revision of its known geographical Hylodes meridionalis (Mertens, 1927) is endemic distribution. Three herpetological collections from Rio to the mountain slopes of the Serra Geral, along the Grande do Sul state were revised in order to confirm southernmost portion of the Atlantic Rainforest.
[Show full text]