Anomaloglossus leopardus Ouboter and Jairam, 2012

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Dendrobatoidea > Family: Aromobatidae > Subfamily: Anomaloglossinae > Genus: Anomaloglossus > Species: Anomaloglossus leopardus

Anomaloglossus leopardus Ouboter and Jairam, 2012, Amph. Suriname: 30. Holotype: NZCS A249 by original designation. Type locality: "Southeast slope of Apalagad Mt., 480 m, north of Sipaliwini Savanna, southern Suriname".

English Names

Leopard Rocket Frog (original publication).

Distribution

Known from the southeastern slope of Apalagad Mountain, 480 m, north of Sipaliwini Savanna, southern Suriname (and presumably in adjacent Brazil) and Mount Kasikasima, Suriname. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Suriname

Likely/Controversially Present: Brazil

Endemic: Suriname

Comment

See account for Suriname population by Ouboter and Jairam, 2012, Amph. Suriname: 30-34. In the Anomaloglossus stepheni group of Vacher, Kok, Rodrigues, Lima, Lorenzini, Martinez, Fallet, Courtois, Blanc, Gaucher, Dewynter, Jairam, Ouboter, Thébaud, and Fouquet, 2017, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 112: 158–173. See account by Fouquet, Vacher, Courtois, Deschamps, Ouboter, Jairam, Gaucher, Dubois, and Kok, 2019, Zootaxa, 4576: 446–447, for amended diagnosis. 

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