Ceuthomantis Heinicke, Duellman, Trueb, Means, MacCulloch, and Hedges, 2009

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Brachycephaloidea > Family: Ceuthomantidae > Genus: Ceuthomantis
4 species

Ceuthomantis Heinicke, Duellman, Trueb, Means, MacCulloch, and Hedges, 2009, Zootaxa, 2211: 6. Type species: Ceuthomantis smaragdinus Heinicke, Duellman, Trueb, Means, MacCulloch, and Hedges, 2009, by original designation.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Elevations of 493–1540 m in the southern and eastern parts of the Guiana Highlands, including the slopes and tops of the following: Mount Ayanganna and the Wokomung Massif in Guyana, Cerro Aracamuni and Sierra Tapirapecó in the Cerro Neblina Massif on the Venezuela–Brazil border, and Sarisariñama Tepui in southern Venezuela, extending into adjacent Brazil.

Comment

 Ospina-Sarria and Grant, 2022, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 195: 976–994, reported on morphology of pelivic and thigh musculature and digital discs of the Brachycephaloidea, and identified an unambiguous synapomorphy of Ceuthomantis

Contained taxa (4 sp.):

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