Brief Summary
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Diagnosis Males snout-vent length 43.5 ± 2.0, maximum 46.8 mm, female 48.8 ± 5.5, maximum 58.0 mm, females larges than males. Thumbs lacking asperities; snout rounded or vertically sloping in profile, lip flared or not; posterior surface of thigh almost always with distinct large light spots, rarely uniform or mottled; dorsal texture of high relief warts bearing shagreen and black and/or white tubercles, warts often aligned into irregular or regular short rows.
- author
- Esteban O. Lavilla
- editor
- Diego Arrieta
Distribution
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Occurs in the Serra do Mar in the states of Paraná, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, in southern Brazil, at 500-900m asl.
- author
- Esteban O. Lavilla
- editor
- Diego Arrieta
Diagnostic Description
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Description of Holotype Snout weakly semicircular from above, rounded in profile; canthus rostralis indistinct; loreal region slightly concave; tympanum hidden; vomerine teeth in short transverse series, separated by less than length of one series, lying between and posterior to choanae; vocal slits present, vocal sac internal; first and second fingers about equal lengths; outer metacarpal tubercle large, rounded with anterior projection, inner metacarpal tubercle ovoid, separated from thumb subarticular tubercle by just less than diameter of subarticular tubercle; thumbs lacking asperities; dorsal texture of high relief warts, shagreened, each wart bearing one or more black tipped tubercles; warts aligned into more or less regular short rows; supratympanic fold present; inguinal gland moderate sized, disk shaped, diameter 1/4 - 1/3 femur length; venter weakly granular; toe tips just wider than digit width; toes fringed, webbed; toe subarticular tubercles moderate; outer rounded metatarsal tubercle smaller than inner ovoid metatarsal tubercle; indistinct tarsal and metatarsal folds; lower tarsus covered with small, low, rounded brown tubercles; sole of foot with small, low, tubercles on outer half, smooth on inner half. Measurements (in mm): snout-vent lenght 45.1, head length 18.6, head width 19.2, eye-nostril distance 4.5, eye-eye distance 8.7, femur 22.1, tibia 22.1, foot 23.3 mm. Coloration in preservative: Dorsum uniform; upper lip with faint light stripes from under eye to edge of lip; upper limbs barred; chin dark grey with distinct light spots, belly and limbs light gray with distinct light spots; posterior surface of thigh dark with distinct, large light spots.
- author
- Esteban O. Lavilla
- editor
- Diego Arrieta