Melanophryniscus

Melanophryniscus is a genus of toads in the family Bufonidae.^[1][2] They are found in northern half of Argentina, southern Bolivia, southern Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Common name South American redbelly toads has been coined for them.^[1]

Melanophryniscus
M. atroluteus (above, underside), M. montevidensis (below, upperside)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Bufonidae
Genus:	Melanophryniscus Gallardo [es], 1961
Type species
Phryniscus stelzneri Weyenbergh, 1875
Species
29 species (see text)

Species

There are 31 recognized species:^[1]

• Melanophryniscus admirabilis Di-Bernardo, Maneyro, and Grillo, 2006
• Melanophryniscus alipioi Langone, Segalla, Bornschein, and de Sá, 2008
• Melanophryniscus atroluteus (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920)
• Melanophryniscus biancae Bornschein, Baldo. Pie, Firkowski. Ribeiro, and Corrêa, 2015
• Melanophryniscus cambaraensis Braun and Braun, 1979
• Melanophryniscus cupreuscapularis Céspedez and Alvarez, 2000
• Melanophryniscus devincenzii Klappenbach, 1968
• Melanophryniscus diabolicus (Martinez Aguirre et al., 2021)
• Melanophryniscus dorsalis (Mertens, 1933)
• Melanophryniscus estebani Céspedez, 2008
• Melanophryniscus fulvoguttatus (Mertens, 1937)
• Melanophryniscus klappenbachi Prigioni and Langone, 2000
• Melanophryniscus krauczuki Baldo and Basso, 2004
• Melanophryniscus langonei Maneyro, Naya, and Baldo, 2008
• Melanophryniscus macrogranulosus Braun, 1973
• Melanophryniscus milanoi Baldo, Bornschein, Pie, Firkowski, Ribeiro, and Belmonte-Lopes, 2015
• Melanophryniscus montevidensis (Philippi, 1902)
• Melanophryniscus moreirae (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920)
• Melanophryniscus nigricans (Martinez Aguirre et al., 2021)
• Melanophryniscus pachyrhynus (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920)
• Melanophryniscus paraguayensis Céspedez and Motte, 2007
• Melanophryniscus peritus Caramaschi and Cruz, 2011
• Melanophryniscus rubriventris (Vellard, 1947)
• Melanophryniscus sanmartini Klappenbach, 1968
• Melanophryniscus setiba Peloso, Faivovich, Grant, Gasparini, and Haddad, 2012
• Melanophryniscus simplex Caramaschi and Cruz, 2002
• Melanophryniscus spectabilis Caramaschi and Cruz, 2002
• Melanophryniscus stelzneri (Weyenbergh, 1875)
• Melanophryniscus tumifrons (Boulenger, 1905)
• Melanophryniscus vilavelhensis Steinbach-Padilha, 2008
• Melanophryniscus xanthostomus Baldo, Bornschein, Pie, Ribeiro, Firkowski, and Morato, 2015

The AmphibiaWeb also recognizes Melanophryniscus orejasmirandai,^[2] which the Amphibian Species of the World treats as synonym of Melanophryniscus pachyrhynus.^[3]

References

1. Frost, Darrel R. (2017). "Melanophryniscus Gallardo, 1961". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
2. "Bufonidae". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. 2018. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
3. Frost, Darrel R. (2017). "Melanophryniscus pachyrhynus (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920)". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 25 January 2018.

External links

• ITIS - Integrated Taxonomic Information System on-line database Taxon Melanophryniscus at https://web.archive.org/web/20160606043808/http://www.itis.gov/index.html. (Accessed: May 3, 2008).
• GBIF - Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxon Melanophryniscus at https://web.archive.org/web/20080501142231/http://data.gbif.org/welcome.htm