Our new records from two protected areas in the municipalities of Itacaré and Uruçuca, both in southern Bahia, Brazil, extend the known distribution area of Rhinella boulengeri 180 km south from the type locality (Salvador - Rio Cururipe) and 112 km northeast from the municipality of Arataca, state of Bahia.

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Journal of species lists and distributionChec List825Notes oN GeoGraphic DistributioNISSN 1809-127X (online edition)© 2011 Check List and AuthorsOpen Access | Freely available at www.checklist.org.brThe family Bufonidae Gray, 1825 has a cosmopolitan distribution except for the Madagascan, Oceanic and Australian region, although it has been introduced in many regions of the world. It is one of the most diversified anuran families concerning size, morphology and coloration patterns. Currently, the Bufonidae are divided into 48 genera. From Brazil, 73 species classified into seven genera have been reported. The genus Rhinella Fitzinger, 1826 is represented by 77 species widely distributed in the Neotropics, one of them (Rhinella marina) has been introduced in the Oceanic region (Frost 2011). Rhinella boulengeri was originally described as Phryniscus proboscideus by Boulenger in 1882. In 1976, this species was redescribed (Izecksohn 1976) and considered as Rhamphophryne proboscidea. Currently it is allocated in the genus Rhinella by Chaparro, Pramuk, Gluesenkamp and Frost (2007). Rhinella boulengeri is a small bufonid that an adult male measures about 41.3 mm in snout-vent length (Feio et al. 2003). The most recent records of the species, beside the type locality, are from Arataca in Bahia (Feio et al. 2003), and Almenara in northeastern Minas Gerais (Feio and Caramaschi 2002), Brazil. Rhinella boulengeri is typically found on leaf-litter in pristine forests, often associated with small streams (Pimenta and Juncá 2004). Several young individuals have been found near a small stream during the day and it is assumed that this species is diurnal (Feio et al. 2003). Herein we provide two new records of Rhinella boulengeri from two protected areas in Brazil. Both are situated at least 18 km from each other and comprise remaining patches of the Atlantic Forest. The forest in southern Bahia is arranged in a mosaic of isolated fragments in different succession stages (Martini et al. 2007). Rhinella boulengeri is classified as data deficient by IUCN (Pimenta and Juncá 2004). It is considered to be rare and might be threatened by the disconnection between these habitats. Abstract: Our new records from two protected areas in the municipalities of Itacaré and Uruçuca, both in southern Bahia, Brazil, extend the known distribution area of Rhinella boulengeri 180 km south from the type locality (Salvador - Rio Cururipe) and 112 km northeast from the municipality of Arataca, state of Bahia.1 Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Conservação da Biodiversidade. Rodovia Ilhéus-Itabuna, km 16.   CEP 45662-000. Ilhéus, BA, Brazil.2 Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Rua José Moreira Sobrinho, Jequiezinho. CEP 45206-190.   Jequié, BA, Brazil.3 Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz. Rodovia Ilhéus-Itabuna, km 16. CEP 45662-000. Ilhéus, BA, Brazil.* Corresponding author. E-mail: asbiologa@gmail.comAmanda S. F. Lantyer Silva 1*, Ricardo Lourenço-de-Moraes 1, Sérgio Siqueira Júnior 2 and Mirco Solé 3Amphibia, Anura, Bufonidae, Rhinella boulengeri Chaparro, Pramuk, Gluesenkamp and Frost, 2007: Distribution extension, state of Bahia, BrazilCheck List | Volume 7 | Issue 6 | 2011One male individual of R. boulengeri was collected at Parque Estadual Serra do Conduru (14°29’S, 39°06’W, 250 m a.s.l.), district of Serra Grande, municipality of Uruçuca, Bahia. This specimen was observed on 17 December 2008 at 7:30 h near the main trail. Due to heavy rainfall the night before, a few little temporary ponds and small ditches had formed on the forest floor near the trail. The voucher specimen is deposited in the Coleção Zoológica da Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz (MZUESC 8148).Another male individual was collected at Reserva Particular do Patrimônio Natural Capitão (RPPN Capitão, Figure 1), in the municipality of Itacaré, Bahia (14°19’ S, 39°04’ W, 126 m a.s.l.). On 24 September 2010, at about 16:00 h, this specimen was found moving slowly under the dense leaf litter in an area of primary forest. Near the Figure 1. Male Rhinella boulengeri registered in the municipality of Itacaré, state of Bahia, northeastern Brazil (ZUEC 16636).826Silva et al. | Distribution extension of Rhinella boulengeri in Bahia, BrazilCheck List | Volume 7 | Issue 6 | 2011site where the animal has been captured, there was a small stream in a distance of approximately 25 m. The voucher specimen is deposited in the Museu de Zoologia “Prof. Adão José Cardoso”, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (ZUEC 16636).Our records extend the known distribution area of Rhinella boulengeri 180 km south from the type locality (Salvador - Rio Cururipe) and 112 km northeast from the municipality of Arataca, state of Bahia (Figure 2). The specimens were collected under granted ICMBio permanent license number 13708-1.Received: September 2011Last Revised: September 2011Accepted: October 2011Published online: December 2011Editorial responsibility: Davi PantojaAcknowledgments: We thank CAPES for Scholarship to RLM and CNPq for a “Bolsa de Produtividade em Pesquisa” to MS. Axel Kwet made helpful suggestions on the manuscript. We further thank Davi Pantoja and an anonymous reviewer for useful comments on the manuscript.Literature CitedChaparro, J.C., J.B. Pramuk, and A.G. Gluesenkamp. 2007. A new species of arboreal Rhinella (Anura: Bufonidae) from cloud forest of southeastern Peru. Herpetologica 63: 203-212. Feio, R.N. and U. Caramaschi. 2002. Contribuição ao conhecimento da herpetofauna do nordeste do estado de Minas Gerais, Brasil. Phyllomedusa: 105-111. Feio, R.N., B.V.S. Pimenta and D. Silvano. 2003. Rediscovery and biology of Rhamphophryne proboscidea Boulenger (1882) (Amphibia, Anura, Bufonidae). Amphibia-Reptilia 24(1): 108-112.Frost, D.R. 2011. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 5.4 (08 April, 2010). Electronic Database accessible at http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/ American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. Captured on 31 May 2011. Izecksohn, E. 1976. O status sistemático de Phryniscus proboscideus Boulenger (Amphibia, Anura, Bufonidae). Revista Brasileira de Biologia 36: 341-345. Martini, A.M.Z., P. Fiaschi, A.M. Amorim, and J.L. Paixão. 2007. 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