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New record of Vitreorana franciscana Santana, Barros, Pontes & Feio, 2015 (Anura, Centrolenidae), a glassfrog endemic to the Brazilian Cerrado

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: We report a new locality for the endemic glassfrog Vitreorana franciscana Santana, Barros, Pontes & Feio, 2015 from Brazilian Cerrado, from the municipality of Nova Ponte, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Field visits were conducted in 2023 at Fazenda Brejão and resulted in the fourth record of this species, which expands this species’ geographic distribution by 150 km to the east. With the new record, the minimum convex polygon for the species is now 18,210 km2.

Source: Check List

DOI: 10.15560/20.4.1041

Authors: Fábio Maffei, Guilherme Marson Moya, Ezequiel da Silva Sousa, Drausio Honório Morais

Institutions: Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia

Language: English

Topic: Amphibian and Reptile Biology

Subfield: Global and Planetary Change

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $161

Funder: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico