Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Atelopus minutus Melin, 1941, Göteborgs K. Vetensk. Vitterh. Samh. Handl., Ser. B, 1: 18. Syntypes: NHMG (5 specimens), according to M.S. Hoogmoed in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 66. Type locality: "Taracúa, Rio Uaupés, [State of Amazonas,] Brazil".

Dendrophryniscus minutus — McDiarmid, 1971, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 12: 40.

Amazonella minutus — Fouquet, Recoder, Teixeira, Cassimiro, Amaro, Camacho, Damasceno, Carnaval, Moritz, and Rodrigues, 2012, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 62: 832.

Amazophrynella minuta — Fouquet, Recoder, Teixeira, Cassimiro, Amaro, Camacho, Damasceno, Carnaval, Moritz, and Rodrigues, 2012, Zootaxa, 3244: 68.

English Names

Tiny Tree Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 44).

Amazonian Tiny Tree Toad (De la Riva, 1999, Herpetozoa, 12: 91).

Distribution

Amazonian Colombia (from the llanos of Meta south to Amazonia), Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, and southern Guianas.

Comment

Discussed by Duellman, 1978, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 65: 120-121, who reported geographic variation in belly pattern. D.C. Cannatella and M.S. Hoogmoed in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 67, believed that this variation is due to two species being confounded. De la Riva, 1999, Herpetozoa, 12: 91-92, reported the Bolivian record. Lescure and Marty, 2000, Collect. Patrimoines Nat., Paris, 45: 56-57, provided a brief account and photo. Lynch, 2006, Caldasia, 28: 138, characterized the range in Colombia. See account (as Dendrophryniscus minutus) for Surinam population by Ouboter and Jairam, 2012, Amph. Suriname: 52-53.

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