The authors
did not challenge the monophyly ofRhamphophryne, which is supported by limited
morphology (see Frost et al., 2006:217) and
has been upheld in phylogenetic analyses of
DNA sequences (Van Bocxlaer et al., 2010;
Pyron and Wiens, 2011; see‘‘Phylogenetic
relationships,’’ below). Consequently, we follow Chaparro et al. (2007) in describing this
toad as a new species of Rhinellaand, to
facilitate comparisons,