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Leptodactylus sertanejo Giaretta and Costa, 2007

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Leptodactylidae > Subfamily: Leptodactylinae > Genus: Leptodactylus

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Leptodactylus sertanejo Giaretta and Costa, 2007, Zootaxa, 1608: 3. Holotype: ZUEC 13657, by original designation. Type locality: "Clube de Caça e Pesca Itororó de Uberlândia (around 19° 00′ 00″ S, 48° 18′ 53″ W, 850 m asl), municipality of Uberlândia, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil".

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Currently known only from the vicinity of the type locality (Municipality of Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil) (see comment).

Comment

According to the original publication, in the Leptodactylus fuscus group, similar to Leptodactylus gracilis, Leptodactylus jolyi, Leptodactylus marambaiae, and Leptodactylus plaumanni and predicted to include populations in the Cerrado morphoclimatic domain in Brazil currently referred to Leptodactylus jolyi.

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