Amazophrynella Fouquet, Recoder, Teixeira, Cassimiro, Amaro, Camacho, Damasceno, Carnaval, Moritz, and Rodrigues, 2012
Amazophrynella Fouquet, Recoder, Teixeira, Cassimiro, Amaro, Camacho, Damasceno, Carnaval, Moritz, and Rodrigues, 2012, Zootaxa, 3244: 68. Replacement name for Amazonella Fouquet, Recoder, Teixeira, Cassimiro, Amaro, Camacho, Damasceno, Carnaval, Moritz, and Rodrigues, 2012.
Amazonella Fouquet, Recoder, Teixeira, Cassimiro, Amaro, Camacho, Damasceno, Carnaval, Moritz, and Rodrigues, 2012, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 62: 832. Type species: Atelopus minutus Melin, 1941, by original designation. Junior homonym of Amazonella Lundblad, 1921 (Acari).
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Throughout Amazonia, at low to moderate altitudes in Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana and French Guyana, and presumably in Surinam.
Comment
Fouquet, Recoder, Teixeira, Cassimiro, Amaro, Camacho, Damasceno, Carnaval, Moritz, and Rodrigues, 2012, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 62: 826-838, suggested that the genus is the sister taxon of Dendrophryniscus.
Contained taxa
- Amazophrynella bokermanni (Izecksohn, 1994)
- Amazophrynella minuta (Melin, 1941)
- Amazophrynella vote Ávila, Carvalho, Gordo, Kawashita-Ribeiro, and Morais, 2012
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