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Dendropsophus minusculus

Description

Dendropsophus aff. minusculus (Rivero, 1971)

TYPE LOCALITY. — Venezuela, Nirgua, Edo. Yaracay.

DISTRIBUTION. — Dendropsophus minusculus is associated with small patches of vegetation in open habitats of northern South America. It belongs to a very complex species group and many populations assigned to this species may have been misidentified. Therefore, the distribution of this species remains poorly delimited.

TAXONOMIC REMARKS. — Populations of the Guiana Shield associated to forest habitat, like in the Mitaraka massif, harbour a distinct mitochondrial lineage that probably corresponds to a distinct species.

HABITAT IN MITARAKA. — This species was conspicuously calling from the vegetation after rainfall along swampy streams and ponds formed nearby the creeks.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — La Planète Revisitée Guyane 2015, MNHN-PNI, APA973-1: AF2739 (♂); AF2831 (♂); AF2832 (♂); AF2833 (♀).

Notes

Published as part of Fouquet, Antoine, Vidal, Nicolas & Dewynter, Maël, 2019, The Amphibians of the Mitaraka massif, French Guiana, pp. 359-374 in Zoosystema 41 (19) on page 368, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2019v41a19, http://zenodo.org/record/3724809

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Biodiversity

Collection code
MATERIAL
Material sample ID
AF2739, AF2831, AF2832, AF2833
Scientific name authorship
Rivero
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Anura
Family
Hylidae
Genus
Dendropsophus
Species
minusculus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Dendropsophus minusculus (Rivero, 1971) sec. Fouquet, Vidal & Dewynter, 2019