Dendropsophus minusculus (Rivero, 1971)
Hyla minuscula Rivero, 1971, Caribb. J. Sci., 11: 1. Holotype: UPRM 3377, by original designation. Type locality: "Nirgua, Edo. Yaracay, Venezuela".
Dendropsophus minusculus — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 92.
English Names
Rivero's Tiny Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 56).
Distribution
Llanos of eastern Meta (Colombia) and lowland savannas of southeastern Venezuela eastward through Guianas to Belém, Brazil.
Comment
Similar to Hyla microcephala according to the original publication and likely in the Hyla microcephala group according to Langone and Basso, 1987, Comun. Zool. Mus. Hist. Nat. Montevideo, 11: 1-17. Kok, 2000, Brit. Herpetol. Soc. Bull., 71: 6, reported the species from French Guiana. Lescure and Marty, 2000, Collect. Patrimoines Nat., Paris, 45: 152-153, provided a photo and brief account for Guiana. See comments regarding distribution of Venezuelan population by Gorzula and Señaris, 1999 "1998", Scient. Guaianae, 8: 33-34. Hoogmoed and Gorzula, 1979, Zool. Meded., Leiden, 54: 191-192, posited that this taxon might be conspecific or a subspecies of Hyla nana. Murphy, 1997, Amph. Rept. Trinidad Tobago: 69-70, provided a brief account for Trinidad. In the Dendropsophus microcephalus group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 91-92. See account for Surinam population by Ouboter and Jairam, 2012, Amph. Suriname: 122-123.
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