Scinax granulatus

LAURA ESTELA VEGA; BELLAGAMBA, PATRICIO; OSCAR ANIBAL STELLATELLI

HERPETOLOGICAL REVIEW

Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles

Año: 2011 vol. 42 p. 109 - 109

0018-084X

SCINAX GRANULATUS (NCN). ARGENTINA: BUENOS AIRES: PARTIDODEGENERALPUEYRREDOSNi:erra de Los Padres (37.94028°5, 57.79472°W; WGS 84). 24 July 2010. L. E. Vega and P. J. Bellagamba. Verified by J. Faivovich. Herpetological Collection of Laboratorio Vertebrados, Departamento de Biología, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina (UNMdP 1809-1810). First citation for the county and the southernmost record known for this species. This is the first documentation of this frog inhabiting mountain environments at 170 m elevo Present record extends the distribution of this frog 120 km to the SW from nearest known locality in Partido de General Madariaga in the Buenos Aires province (Barrasso and Cajade 2007. Herpetol. Rev. 38:99). The species was previously known from northeastern Argentina, south to Buenos Aires Province; Uruguay and Paraná, Santa Catarina, and Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; expected in southern Paraguay (Frost 2010. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 5.4 [8 April20 10]. Electronic database accessible at http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia. American Museum ofNatural History, NewYork). Barrasso and Cajade (2007, op. cit.) pointed out that Gallardo mentioned two specimens from Sierra de la Ventana, but the citation is not supported by voucher specimens. Two adults were captured under rocks. Another five individuals were found inactive under rocks. LAURA E.VEGA, PATRICIO J. BELLAGAMBA, OSCAR A. STELLATELLI, laboratorio Vertebrados, Departamento de Biología, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Funes 3250, 7600 Mar del Plata, Argentina; GUILLERMO S. NATALE, Centro de Investigaciones del Medio Ambiente, Departamento de Química, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad de la Plata, Calle 47 y 115 s/n, la Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.