{"title":"Hylid or microhylid? No evidence for the occurrence of Trachycephalus mesophaeus (Anura, Hylidae) in Argentina","authors":"J. Faivovich, A. Elias-Costa","doi":"10.22179/revmacn.22.683","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Resumen: Una publicacion reciente reporto al hilido endemico del Bosque Atlantico Trachycephalus mesophaeus para la ecoregion Chaquena en Argentina. En este trabajo, analizamos el especimen de referencia y demostramos que se trata de un ejemplar incorrectamente determinado del microhilido asiatico Kaloula pulchra , una especie comercializada a nivel mundial. De esta forma, no existe evidencia para considerar que T. mesophaeus esta presente en Argentina. Abstract: A recent publication reported the Atlantic Forest endemic hylid Trachycephalus mesophaeus for the Chacoan ecoregion in Argentina. In this paper, we analyzed the voucher specimen and showed that it is a misidentified specimen of the Asiatic microhylid Kaloula pulchra , a species commonly commercialized in the pet trade worldwide. Therefore, there is no evidence for the occurrence of T. mesophaeus in Argentina.","PeriodicalId":39176,"journal":{"name":"Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Nueva Serie","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Nueva Serie","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.22179/revmacn.22.683","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Agricultural and Biological Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Resumen: Una publicacion reciente reporto al hilido endemico del Bosque Atlantico Trachycephalus mesophaeus para la ecoregion Chaquena en Argentina. En este trabajo, analizamos el especimen de referencia y demostramos que se trata de un ejemplar incorrectamente determinado del microhilido asiatico Kaloula pulchra , una especie comercializada a nivel mundial. De esta forma, no existe evidencia para considerar que T. mesophaeus esta presente en Argentina. Abstract: A recent publication reported the Atlantic Forest endemic hylid Trachycephalus mesophaeus for the Chacoan ecoregion in Argentina. In this paper, we analyzed the voucher specimen and showed that it is a misidentified specimen of the Asiatic microhylid Kaloula pulchra , a species commonly commercialized in the pet trade worldwide. Therefore, there is no evidence for the occurrence of T. mesophaeus in Argentina.