An extraordinary new species of Melanophryniscus (Anura, Bufonidae) from southeastern Brazil

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Peloso, Pedro L. V., Faivovich, Julián, Grant, Taran, Gasparini, João Luiz, Haddad, Célio F. B. (2012): An extraordinary new species of Melanophryniscus (Anura, Bufonidae) from southeastern Brazil. American Museum Novitates 2012 (3762): 1-32, DOI: 10.1206/3762.2, URL: bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/3762.2 ABSTRACT We describe a new species of bufonid from a lowland, sandy soil, restinga habitat in the state of Espírito Santo, southeastern Brazil.

Based on the shared occurrence of putative morphological synapomorphies of Melanophryniscus and the results of a phylogenetic analysis of DNA sequences of a broad sample of bufonids, and other anurans, we assign the new species to Melanophryniscus. The new species possesses several peculiar character states that distinguish it from all other Melanophryniscus including, but not limited to: fingers II, III, and V much reduced; nuptial pad with few enlarged, brown-colored spines on medial margin of finger II; seven presacral vertebrae, the last fused with the sacrum; and ventral humeral crest prominent, forming a spinelike projection. 1 Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Herpetology), American Museum of Natural History. 2 Richard Gilder Graduate School, American Museum of Natural History. 3 División Herpetología, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales–CONICET, Angel Gallardo 470, C1405DJR, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biología Experimental, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. 4 Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Caixa Postal 199, 13506-900, Rio Claro, SP, Brasil. 5 Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo.