A new species of Bufo Laurenti (Anura, Bufonidae) from northeastern Brazil

Stevaux, Maria Nazaré

doi:10.1590/S0101-81752002000500018

Abstract

A new species of bufonid load, Bufo jimi sp. nov., is described from Maracás and Itagibá, State of Bahia, Brazil. This species shows close relationships to B. paracnemis Lutz, 1925 by sharing the presence of tibial glands and the paratoid glands shape. The new species is a member of the Bufo marinus-group, and is characlerized by having well-defined glands in most part of dorsal faceof the forearms, in the extcrn side of the feet and in both sides of cloacal region.

Amphibia; Anura; Bufonidae; Bufo jimi sp. nov.; anuran; taxonomy

A new species of Bufo Laurenti (Anura, Bufonidae) from northeastern Brazil

Maria Nazaré Stevaux

Departamento de Biologia Geral, Universidade Federal de Goiás. Campus Samambaia, Caixa Postal 131 ,74001-970 Goiânia, Goiás, Brasil. E-mail: nstevaux@uol.com.br

ABSTRACT

A new species of bufonid load, Bufo jimi sp. nov., is described from Maracás and Itagibá, State of Bahia, Brazil. This species shows close relationships to B. paracnemis Lutz, 1925 by sharing the presence of tibial glands and the paratoid glands shape. The new species is a member of the Bufo marinus-group, and is characlerized by having well-defined glands in most part of dorsal faceof the forearms, in the extcrn side of the feet and in both sides of cloacal region.

Key Words: Amphibia, Anura, Bufonidae, Bufo jimi sp. nov., anuran, taxonomy

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. I am very grateful to Jorge Jim by his dedication to my formation in amphibians systematic. I also thank to Benedito Rinaldo Cardana and Elieth Spirandelli Cruz for stimulus and useful discussions, and Dalton de Sousa Amorim for his review of a draft copy of the manuscript. I thank Miguel Rodrigues for his agreement with my access to the amphibians collection of MZUSP. I am also grateful to CAPES-PICD for support to this work.

Received in 21.IX.2001; accepted in 29.VI.2002.

BLAIR, F.W. 1972. Evolution in the Genus Bufo. Austin, Univ. Texas Press, 459p.
CEI, J.M. 1968. Remarks on the geographical distribution and phyletic trends of South American toads. Texas Memorial Museum/24^TH and Trinity/Austin, The Pcarce-Sellards Series 13: 1-21.
_____. 1972. Bufo of South America, p. 82-92. In: W.F. BLAIR (Ed.). Evolution in the Genus Bufo. Austin, Univ. Texas Press, 459p.
DUELLMAN W.E. & R. SCHULTE. 1992. Description of a new species of Bufo from northern Peru with comments on phenetic groups of South American toads (Anura: Bufonidae). Copeia 1992: 162-172.
GALLARDO, J.M. 1962. A proposito de Bufo variegatus Günther, sapo del bosque húmedo antartântico, y las otras especies de Bufo neotropicales. Physis, Buenos Aires, 23: 93-102.
_____. 1965a. Una nueva subespecie chaqueña Bufo arenarum chaquar (Amphibia: Bufonidae). Neotropica, Buenos Aires, 11 (36): 84-88.
_____. 1965b. Especiación en tres Bufo Neotropicales (Amphibia, Anura). Papéis Avuls Depto Zoologia, São Paulo, 17 (7): 59-75.
GRAYBEAL, A. & D.C. CANNATELLA. 1995. A new taxon of Bufonidae from Peru, with descriptions of two new species and a review of the phylogenetic status of supraspecific bufonid taxa. Herpetologica 51 (2): 105-131.
HOOGMOED, M.S. 1990. Biosystematics of South American Bufonidae, with special reference to the Bufo typhonius-group, p. 113-123. In: G. PETERS & R. HUTTETER (Eds), Vertebrates in the Tropics. Bonn, Museum Alexander Koenig, 424p.
MARTIN, R.F. 1972. Evidence from osteology, p. 37-70. In: W.F. BLAIR (Ed.). Evolution in the Genus Bufo. Austin, Univ. Texas Press, 459p.
REIG, O.A. 1972. Macrogenioglottus and the South American bufonid toads, p. 14-36. In: W.F. BLAIR (Ed.). Evolution in the Genus Bufo. Austin, Univ. Texas Press, 459p.

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03 June 2009
Date of issue
July 2002

History

Accepted
29 June 2002
Received
21 Sept 2001

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[1] BLAIR, F.W. 1972. Evolution in the Genus Bufo. Austin, Univ. Texas Press, 459p.

[2] CEI, J.M. 1968. Remarks on the geographical distribution and phyletic trends of South American toads. Texas Memorial Museum/24^TH and Trinity/Austin, The Pcarce-Sellards Series 13: 1-21.

[3] _____. 1972. Bufo of South America, p. 82-92. In: W.F. BLAIR (Ed.). Evolution in the Genus Bufo. Austin, Univ. Texas Press, 459p.

[4] DUELLMAN W.E. & R. SCHULTE. 1992. Description of a new species of Bufo from northern Peru with comments on phenetic groups of South American toads (Anura: Bufonidae). Copeia 1992: 162-172.

[5] GALLARDO, J.M. 1962. A proposito de Bufo variegatus Günther, sapo del bosque húmedo antartântico, y las otras especies de Bufo neotropicales. Physis, Buenos Aires, 23: 93-102.

[6] _____. 1965a. Una nueva subespecie chaqueña Bufo arenarum chaquar (Amphibia: Bufonidae). Neotropica, Buenos Aires, 11 (36): 84-88.

[7] _____. 1965b. Especiación en tres Bufo Neotropicales (Amphibia, Anura). Papéis Avuls Depto Zoologia, São Paulo, 17 (7): 59-75.

[8] GRAYBEAL, A. & D.C. CANNATELLA. 1995. A new taxon of Bufonidae from Peru, with descriptions of two new species and a review of the phylogenetic status of supraspecific bufonid taxa. Herpetologica 51 (2): 105-131.

[9] HOOGMOED, M.S. 1990. Biosystematics of South American Bufonidae, with special reference to the Bufo typhonius-group, p. 113-123. In: G. PETERS & R. HUTTETER (Eds), Vertebrates in the Tropics. Bonn, Museum Alexander Koenig, 424p.

[10] MARTIN, R.F. 1972. Evidence from osteology, p. 37-70. In: W.F. BLAIR (Ed.). Evolution in the Genus Bufo. Austin, Univ. Texas Press, 459p.

[11] REIG, O.A. 1972. Macrogenioglottus and the South American bufonid toads, p. 14-36. In: W.F. BLAIR (Ed.). Evolution in the Genus Bufo. Austin, Univ. Texas Press, 459p.