Osteocephalus oophagus Jungfer and Schiesari, 1995
Osteocephalus oophagus Jungfer and Schiesari, 1995, Alytes, 13: 2. Holotype: MZUSP 69852, by original designation. Type locality: "Reserva Florestal Adolfo Dicke (2° 55′ S, 59° 59′ W), situated at km 26 of the Rodovia AM-010 (Manaus—Itacoatiara), Estado do Amazonas, Brazil".
English Names
Oophagous Slender-legged Treefrog (Kok and Kalamandeen, 2008, Intr. Taxon. Amph. Kaieteur Natl. Park, 5: 186).
Distribution
Known only from the vicinity of the type locality in Amazonas, Brazil; a record in Guainia, Colombia; French Guiana; presumably to be found in Amazonian Venezuela and the remainder of the Guianas.
Comment
Lynch and Vargas Ramírez, 2001 "2000", Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 24: 588, provided the Colombian record. Lescure and Marty, 2000, Collect. Patrimoines Nat., Paris, 45: 186-187, provided a photo and brief account for French Guiana. Kok and Kalamandeen, 2008, Intr. Taxon. Amph. Kaieteur Natl. Park, 5: 186-187, provided an account. Moravec, Aparicio, Guerrero-Reinhard, Calderón, Jungfer, and Gvoždík, 2009, Zootaxa, 2215: 37-54, noted likely misidentifications in GenBank sequences. See account for Surinam population by Ouboter and Jairam, 2012, Amph. Suriname: 166-167.
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