Leptodactylus nesiotus Heyer, 1994
Leptodactylus nesiotus Heyer, 1994, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 546: 91. Holotype: USNM 306179, by original designation. Type locality: "Trinidad; St. Patrick; Icacos Peninsula, Icacos".
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Known onl from Icacos Swamp on the southwestern peninsula of Trinidad, West Indies.
Comment
In the Leptodactylus wagneri-Leptodactylus podicipinus complex according to the original publication. Murphy, 1997, Amph. Rept. Trinidad Tobago: 88-89, provided a brief account. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 402. Ponssa, Jowers, and de Sá, 2010, Zootaxa, 2646: 1-25, reported on morphological phylogenetics and suggested that Leptodactylus nesiotus is the sister taxon of Leptodactylus validus.
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