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E-mail: denise @condor polo.bilce unesp Br, and "Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Estadual Paulista, CEP 18618-000, Botucatu, Sio Paulo, Brasil ‘The genera Proceratophrys Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920, and Odantophrynus Reinhardt and Luetken, 1862 (Tel- matobiinae, Odontophrynini, are closely related and. differ mainly by osteological characteristics (Lynch, 1971). Odontophrynus moratci, the smallest species in the genus, shows features intermediate between the genera Proceratopkrys and Odontophrynus; however, it has been placed in the genus Odontophrynus because diagnostic features of the latter genus predominate (Jim and Caramaschi, 1980) Twelve species are currently known in Procerato- phrys and eight in Odontophrynus (Frost, 1985; Wey- goldt and Peixoto, 1985; Cei, 1987; Giaretta and Sa- zima, 1993), Tadpoles of six species of Proceratophrys (Peixoto et al., 1984; Giaretta and Sazima, 1993) and seven of Odontophrynus (Caramaschi, 1979; Cei, 1987) have been described. Herein we describe the tadpole of O. moratoi and provide comments concerning its current generic allocation. ‘The use of morphological characters primarily fol- low Altig and Johnston (1986; 1989) and Johnston and ‘Altig (1986), The analysis of Odontophrynus tadpoles ‘was based on original and subsequent descriptions (Cei, 1980 and 1987) and drawings, and reinterpreted according to Johnston and Altig (1986). Tadpoles of six species of Proceratophrys and of O. americanus and (©. carvalhoi were borrowed from the Jorge Jim col- lection, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Es- tadual Paulista, Botucatu, SP, Brazil (JJ), Eugénio lz- ecksohn collection, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil (El) and Museu de Historia Natural, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Cam- pinas, SP, Brazil (ZUEC) (Leviton et al., 1985). Mea surements were made with an ocular grid at 10x * Send correspondence to D. C. Rossa-Feres.