This article describes a recently extinct new species of Atlantic Forest nurse frog, Dryadobates erythropus. This species description is based on a single, highly desiccated adult male collected in 1963 in Curitiba, Paraná, significantly expanding the known southern distribution of the Dryadobates clade. The authors confirm the specimen's identity through detailed morphological analysis, despite being unable to sequence endogenous DNA poor preservation. They conclude that the species is presumed extinct due to the complete urbanization and loss of habitat at its type locality and failure to detect Dryadobates in any of the many amphibian inventories carried out in São Paulo and Paraná over the past 60 years. The article also discusses the recent, rapid extinction of four Dryadobates species between the mid-1960s and mid-1980s, attributing these declines to factors like habitat loss, chytridiomycosis, and extreme weather events.

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Grant T., Pinheiro P.D.P. 2025. A recently extinct new species of Dryadobates (Anura: Aromobatidae) from South Brazil: species description and implications for the historical distribution and recent extinction history of the clade. Zootaxa5693: 583–595. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5693.4.9

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