Rana pacybrachion Wied, 1824

Vanzolini, Paulo E. & Myers, Charles W., 2015, The Herpetological Collection Of Maximilian, Prince Of Wied (1782 - 1867), With Special Reference To Brazilian Materials, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2015 (395), pp. 1-155 : 75-76

Rana pacybrachion Wied, 1824

1824 Isis : 671 (diagnosis).

PRESENT STATUS: Leptodactylus ocellatus (Linnaeus, 1758) .

REMARKS: We find the name Rana pacybrachion only in the 1824 Isis . Wied subsquently decided that the specimen represent- ed Rana pachypus Spix , which was the name used in the 1825 Beitra¨ge (see following species). This is obvious because the same vernacular name (‘‘der dickarmige Frosch’’) and, especially, the same diagnosis are used both for pacybrachion and for pachypus .

40 Sapo is both Portuguese and Spanish, being defined as ‘‘toad’’ in dictionaries. Nonetheless, the word also is very commonly used for various kinds of frogs throughout much of the New World tropics.

Bokermann (1966a: 90) picked up the name pacybrachion but did not catch that it was identical with pachypus . Bokermann suspected that pacybrachion ‘‘5? Leptodactylus ,’’ and listed the type locality simply as ‘‘ Brasil.’’ However, Wied (Beitra¨ge: 544) obtained his specimens of Rana pachypus on the rivers Espirito Santo and Jucu, which therefore delimit the type-locality possibilities for his identical Rana pacybrachion .