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Altigius alios Wild, 1995

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Genus: Altigius

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Altigius alios Wild, 1995, Copeia, 1995: 838. Holotype: KU 215544, by original designation. Type locality: "Reserva Cuzco Amazónico, north bank of the Río Madre de Dios, about 15 km ENE of Puerto Maldonado, Provincia de Tambopata, Departamento de Madre de Dios, Perú (12° 33′ S, 69° 03′ W), 200 m".

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Known from the type locality (Madre de Dios, Peru), an imprecise locality in northern La Paz Province, Bolivia, and Cachoeira do Morrinho, Municpality of Porto Velho, Rondônia, Brazil, in lowland rainforest; presumably more widespread than current records suggest.

Comment

See comment under the Altigius. De la Riva, Köhler, Lötters, and Reichle, 2000, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 14: 57, and Köhler, 2000, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 48: 69, consider this species possibly to occur in Bolivia. Simões, Kaefer, and Lima, 2011, Herpetol. Notes, 4: 141-142, provided a range extension to Rondonia, Brazil, and noted the existence of a record for northern Bolivia.

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