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Check List 5(3): 507–509, 2009. ISSN: 1809-127X  NOTES ON GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION     507Amphibia, Anura, Pipidae, Pipa pipa: Distribution extension,  new state record and geographic distribution map  Wilian Vaz-Silva 1, 2 Tiago Almeida de Andrade 3  1 Centro Universitário de Goiás – Uni-Anhanguera, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Laboratório de Anatomia Animal. Rua Prof. Lázaro Costa, 456. CEP 74415-450. Goiânia, GO, Brazil. Email: wvaz@ambientalnet.com.br.  2 Laboratório de Comportamento Animal, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Goiás.  Cx. Postal 131. CEP 74001-970. Goiânia, GO, Brazil.  3 Instituto Chico Mendes para Conservação da Biodiversidade – Centro de Conservação e Manejo de Répteis e Anfíbios (ICMBio/RAN). Rua 229, n. 95, setor Universitário. CEP 74605-090. Goiânia, GO, Brazil.   Pipa pipa (Linnaeus, 1758) presents the largest range within its genus, occurring in Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam, and French Guyana (Lima et al. 2005). This species occurs typically in Amazonian tropical rainforest, always in slow flowing watercourses, backwater of streams, ponds, and pools in flooded forest, where it hides under submerged litter (Lima et al. 2005).   Bokermann (1962) registered Pipa pipa in a transition zone between Amazonia and Cerrado, in Coluene river, state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. Trueb and Cannatella (1986) analyzed extensive material and reported the ocurrence of P. pipa in tropical rainforest, pointing out Bokermann’s register (Bokermann 1962). Recently, Brandão (2002) recorded P. pipa in a transition zone in state of Rondônia, municipality of Costa Marques, Brazil.  Herein, we report the first record of Pipa pipa in the core area of Cerrado biome, at the state of Goiás, central Brazil.    Figure 1. Dorsal (A) and ventral (B) views of Pipa pipa from Bonópolis (MNRJ 55664), state of Goiás, central Brazil. Bars = 10 mm. Photo by W. Vaz-Silva. Check List 5(3): 507–509, 2009. ISSN: 1809-127X  NOTES ON GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION     508On 29 May 2008, a single specimen of Pipa pipa (MNRJ 55664) (Figure 1) was captured (permition number AGMARN 015/2008) in a deactivated pitfall trap with drift-fence. The trap was located in aluvial forest with riparian vegetation at Gregório river bank (13°41'36" S; 43°51'53" W), municipality of Bonópolis, state of Goiás, central Brazil (Figure 2). Gregório river is an affluent of the left bank of Crixás Açu river, a large affluent of Araguaia river. The new record extends the known distribution range of P. pipa ca. 110 km south from Costa Marques (Brandão 2002).   Pipa pipa is rarely found in terrestrial environment due to its aquatic behavior, thus we considered its capture in a pitfall trap as uncommun. Brandão (2002) and Garda et al. (2006) collected specimens of Pipa in pitfall traps after heavy rains that flooded the buckets.  Species that typically occurs in Amazonia, Pantanal, Chaco, Caatinga and Atlantic Forest can occasionally be found in transition zones with Cerrado (W. Vaz-Silva, pers. obs.). Our record in a Cerrado gallery forest reinforces the importance of preserving riparian environments for biodiversity conservation.    Figure 2. Geographic distribution of Pipa pipa (Linnaeus, 1758) based in literature data [ = Bokermann (1962); • = Trueb and Canatella (1986);  = Brandão (2002);  = Lima et al. (2005)] and our record (). Check List 5(3): 507–509, 2009. ISSN: 1809-127X  NOTES ON GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION     509Acknowledgements We are thankful to Durval França and Lorena Nunes for help in the fieldwork; Paula Hanna Valdujo, Natan M. Maciel, Reuber A. Brandão and Célio Haddad for kindly criticizing the manuscript; Alfredo P. Santos-Jr for distribution map and José Perez Pombal Jr. for assistance at Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ).   ————————————————  Literature cited Bokermann, W. C. A. 1962. Sobre uma pequena coleção de anfíbios do Brasil Central com a descrição de uma espécie nova de “Physalaemus” (Amphibia, Salientia). Revista Brasileira de Biologia 22: 213-219. Brandão, R. A. 2002. Avaliação Ecológica Rápida da Herpetofauna nas Reservas Extrativistas de Pedras Negras e Curralinho, Costa Marques, RO. Brasil Florestal 74: 61-73. Garda, A. A., G. M. Biavati, and G. C. Costa. 2006. Sexual dimorphism, female fertility, and diet of Pipa arrabali (Anura, Pipidae) in Serra do Cachimbo, Pará, Brazil. South American Journal of Herpetology 1(1): 20-24. Lima, A. P., W. E. Magnusson, M. Menin, L. K. Erdtmann, D. J. Rodrigues, C. Keller, and W. Hödl. 2005. Guia de sapos da Reserva Adolpho Ducke – Amazônia Central. Manaus: Áttema Design Editorial. 168p. Trueb, L. and D. C. Cannatella. 1986. Systematics, morphology and phylogeny of genus Pipa (Anura, Pipidae). Herpetologica 42(4): 412-449.    Received February 2009 Accepted August 2009 Published online September 2009  

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