Leptodactylus leptodactyloides (Andersson, 1945)
Eleutherodactylus leptodactyloides Andersson, 1945, Ark. Zool., 37A(2): 43. Holotype: NHRM by original indication; unnumbered according to Heyer, 1970, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 191: 18; NHRM 1945 by museum records (W.R. Heyer, personal commun.). Type locality: "Rio Pastaza", eastern Ecuador; given as "Rio Pastaza (between the Rio Puyo and Rio Copotaza)" in the NHRM catalogue (W.R. Heyer personal commun.).
Leptodactylus leptodactyloides — Heyer, 1994, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 546: 88.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Greater Amazon Basin and the Guianas, 15-400 m elevation.
Comment
Removed from the synonymy of Leptodactylus wagneri (where it had been placed by Heyer, 1970, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 191: 21) by Heyer, 1994, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 546: 88, who provided an account and considered it in the Leptodactylus wagneri-Leptodactylus podicipinus complex. Lescure and Marty, 2000, Collect. Patrimoines Nat., Paris, 45: 254-255, provided a photo and brief account for French Guiana. Köhler, 2000, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 48: 133, provided a brief account. Jansen, Bloch, Schulze, and Pfenninger, 2011, Zool. Scripta, 40: 567-583, suggested on the basis of molecular evidence that the Bolivian population represents an unnamed species. See account for Surinam population by Ouboter and Jairam, 2012, Amph. Suriname: 238-239.
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