Ischnocnema oea (Heyer, 1984)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Brachycephaloidea > Family: Brachycephalidae > Genus: Ischnocnema > Species: Ischnocnema oea

Eleutherodactylus oeus Heyer, 1984, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 402: 32. Holotype: MNRJ 1244, by original designation. Type locality: "Brazil: Espirito Santo; Santa Teresa".

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) oeusLynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 229.

Ischnocnema oeaHeinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: 15; Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 27.

English Names

Espirito Santo Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 77).

Distribution

Known from the state of Espírito Santo, southeastern Brazil, in the municipalities of Cariacica, Santa Teresa, and Vargem Alta. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus guentheri cluster of Heyer, 1984, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 402: 42. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) binotatus series, Eleutherodactylus binotatus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 229. In the Ischnocnema guentheri species series of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 27, Canedo and Haddad, 2012, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 65: 619, Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 122, Taucce, Canedo, and Haddad, 2018, Herpetol. Monogr., 32: 1–21, and Taucce, Canedo, Parreiras, Drummond, Nogueira-Costa, and Haddad, 2018, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 128: 123–146. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status (as Eleutherodactylus oeus) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 621. Silva-Soares, Ferreira, and Nogueira da Costa, 2009, Herpetol. Rev., 40: 108, provided the Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, record, although this specimen was subsequently reidentified by Taucce, Canedo, and Haddad, 2018, Herpetol. Monogr., 32: 1–21, as Ischnocnema nasuta. Mângia, Silva, Sant’Anna, and Santana, 2011, Check List, 7: 164–165, provided a record for eastern Minas Gerais, Brazil, and discussed the range but these specimens were later reidentified by Taucce, Canedo, and Haddad, 2018, Herpetol. Monogr., 32: 1–21, as Ischnocnema garciai. Hepp and Canedo, 2013, Zootaxa, 3710: 197–199, reported on advertisement and aggressive vocalizations. Taucce, Canedo, and Haddad, 2018, Herpetol. Monogr., 32: 4–10, provided an account of the species in the sense of excluding what were named by them as Ischnocnema garciae and Ischnocnema feioi. Taucce, Canedo, Haddad, Lemmon, Lemmon, Vences, and Lyra, 2018, MtDNA, Part B, 3: 915–917, reported on the mtDNA genome.

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