Phalotris cuyanus: Argentina: Mendoza

Abstract

dePartaMento las heras: Reserva Natural Villavicencio (32.66722°S, 68.86742°W; WGS 84) 840 m elev. 25 November 2013. J. Moreni. Verified by J. A. Scolaro. Herpetological Collection of the Fundación Miguel Lillo, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina (FML 30199; photo voucher). Adult specimen (400 mm total length) found on stony compact soils, which differs from the soft sandy soils of previous records. This Argentinian endemic species of the Monte biogeographic province (Cabrera 2001. Rev. Mus. Argentino Cs. Nat. n.s. 3:109–118; Giraudo and Scrocchi 2002. Smithsonian Herpetol. Inf. Serv. 132:1–53) was known from San Juan, Mendoza and San Luis provinces (Cei 1984 Boln. Mus. Cien. Nat. Antrop. Moyano 4:47–50; Cei 1986 Reptiles del noroeste, nordeste y este de la Argentina. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat., Torino, 949 pp.; Leynaud et al. 2005 Phyllomedusa 4:103–110). First department record in the extensive piedmont of the Southern Andean Precordillera, western boundary of the Monte province. Westernmost record of the species, which extends the known distribution 123 km southwest from Dique Bello, San Juan (Leynaud et al. 2005, op. cit.), and 175 km northwest from Ñacuñán Biosphere Reserve, Mendoza (Quiroga and Ferrer 2016. Cuad. Herpetol. 30:43–44), the closest previous records.