Amazophrynella minuta
Authors/Creators
- 1. Fundación AndígenA, Apartado Postal 210, Mérida, VENEZUELA & Current address: Doc Frog Expeditions, Uvita de Osa, COSTA RICA
- 2. Fundación La Salle de Ciencias Naturales, Museo de Historia Natural La Salle, Apartado Postal 1930, Caracas 1010 - A, VENEZUELA & Current address: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Río Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Laboratório de Sistemática de Vertebrados, Av. Ipiranga 6681, Porto Alegre, RS 90619 - 900, BRAZIL
- 3. Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Altos de Pipe, apartado 20632, Caracas 1020, VENEZUELA
Description
Amazophrynella minuta (Melin 1941)
Holotype: BM 1968.940.
Type locality: Taracuá, Uaupés, Brazil.
Distribution: Widely dispersed in Amazonia occurring in Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia, the Guianas, and Peru. In Venezuela, known only from near Raudal de Danto, Cuao River, Amazonas State (Rojas-Runjaic et al. 2013).
Remarks: Amazophrynella minuta is an abundant terrestrial species of the forest floor leaf litter throughout its distribution. In Venezuela it is very rare. Only one specimen found in many years of monitoring amphibians in Amazonas State (Rojas-Runjaic et al. 2013). Fouquet et al. (2012a) suggested a different species of the A. minuta complex may exist in the Guianas and, thus, populations currently considered to belong to species A. minuta need to be better defined to delineate specification. Rojas et al. (2016) further examined the A. minuta complex.
Selected references: Fouquet et al. (2012a,b); Rojas-Runjaic et al. (2013); Rojas et al. (2014).
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Related works
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.11404264 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/BA31FFE7FFACFF986D36FA1CFFB9FFDF (URL)
- Is source of
- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/4608879FFFA4FF906DDAF911FDFAFA79 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/232129502 (URL)
- https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/298067/taxon/4608879FFFA4FF906DDAF911FDFAFA79.taxon (URL)
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- BM
- Material sample ID
- BM 1968
- Scientific name authorship
- Melin
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Anura
- Family
- Bufonidae
- Genus
- Amazophrynella
- Species
- minuta
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Amazophrynella minuta (Melin, 1941) sec. Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic & Señaris, 2019
References
- Melin D. 1941. Contributions to the knowledge of the Amphibia of South America. Goteborgs Kungliga Vetenskaps- och Vitterhets-Samhalles Handlingar Serie B 1: 1 - 71.
- Fouquet A, Recoder R, Texeira Jr M, Cassimiro J, Amaro RC, Camacho A, Damasceno R, Carnaval AC, Moritz C, Rodrigues MT. 2012 a. Molecular phylogeny and morphometric analyses reveal deep divergence between Amazonia and Atlantic Forest species of Dendrophryniscus. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 62: 826 - 838.
- Rojas RR, De Carvalho VT, Gordo M, Avila RW, Pires IF, Hrbek T. 2014. A new species of Amazophrynella (Anura: Bufonidae) from the southwestern part of the Brazilian Guiana Shield. Zootaxa 3753: 079 - 095.