Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Euparkerella myrmecoides Lynch, 1976, Herpetologica, 32: 50. Holotype: TCWC 41532, by original designation. Type locality: "Mishana (2 1/2 hours by speedboat up the Río Nanay from the Navy dock 5 km NNE Iquitos), Depto. Loreto, Perú".

Phyllonastes myrmecoides — Heyer, 1977, Pap. Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 31: 152. Lynch, 1986, J. Herpetol., 20: 426.

Noblella myrmecoides — De la Riva, Chaparro, and Padial, 2008, Zootaxa, 1685: 68.

English Names

Loreto Leaf Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 83).

Distribution

Upper Amazon basin of southeastern Colombia (Departamento Leticia), eastern Ecuador (Orellana Province), northeastern and southeastern Peru (Departments of Loreto, San Martin, Huánuco, Cusco, and Madre de Dios), Bolivia (Departments of Cochabamba and La Paz), and western Brazil (Amazonas).

Comment

See Hoogmoed and Lescure, 1984, Zool. Meded., Leiden, 58: 88, for Brazilian records. 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. Reichle, Aguayo-Vedia, and Cortez F., 2004, Herpetol. Rev., 35: 283, reported this species in Bolivia. Cisneros-Heredia and Reynolds, 2007, Herpetozoa, 19: 184-186, provided a record for Tiputini Biodiversity station, Orellana Province, Ecuador, and discussed the range of the species. Lynch, 2005, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 29: 58-588, reported this species from the region of Leticia, Colombia. See Duellman and Lehr, 2009, Terrest.-breeding Frogs in Peru: 93-94, for brief account.

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