Allobates magnussoni Lima, Simões, and Kaefer, 2014

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Dendrobatoidea > Family: Aromobatidae > Subfamily: Allobatinae > Genus: Allobates > Species: Allobates magnussoni

Allobates magnussoni Lima, Simões, and Kaefer, 2014, Zootaxa, 3889: 359. Holotype. INPA-H 32960, by original designation. Type locality: "Parque Nacional da Amazônia, municipality of Itaituba, on the western margin of the Tapajós River (04°33’12.3” S; 56°18’00.3” W, elevation 132 m a.s.l.), Pará State, Brazil. The type locality is 65 km southwest of Itaituba’s urban perimeter on BR-230 (Transamazônica) road. The specimen was found near a water spring located ~300 m from the park’s research base, towards the margin of the Tapajós River." Zoobank publication registration: E0B134DA-750A-409D-8A7C-8F681C87ACC4

English Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Tapajós River basin, in central Brazilian Amazonia, south of the Amazon River, Pará, Brazil. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

Confused with Allobates magnussoni prior to its naming according to the original publication, where the advertisement call was described. Réjaud, Rodrigues, Crawford, Castroviejo-Fisher, Jaramillo-Martinez, Chaparro, Glaw, Gagliardi-Urrutia, Moravec, De la Riva, Pérez-Peña, Lima, Werneck, Hrbek, Ron, Ernst, Kok, Driskell, Chave, and Fouquet, 2020, J. Biogeograph., 47: 2472–2482, noted a cryptic species associated with this nominal taxon. 

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