Amazophrynella manaos Rojas, Carvalho, Ávila, Farias, and Hrbek, 2014

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Bufonidae > Genus: Amazophrynella > Species: Amazophrynella manaos

Amazophrynella manaos Rojas-Zamora, Carvalho, Gordo, Ávila, Farias, and Hrbek, 2014, Zootaxa, 3753: 82. Holotype: INPA-H 31866, by original designation. Type locality: "in forest remnants of the campus of the Universidade Federal do Amazonas—UFAM (03° 05′ 56″ S, 59° 58′  09″ W), municipality of Manaus, Amazonas State", Brazil. 

English Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Currently known only from eight localities in the state of Amazonas, Brazil: Mineração Taboca, Campus of the Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Reserva Florestal Adolpho Ducke, Presidente Figueiredo, Reserva ZF-2, REBIO Uatumã, RDS Uatumã and Parque Estadual Rio Negro Setor Sul, Cuieiras River; to the south and west its distribution is likely to be delimited by the Amazon and Negro Rivers, respectively. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

Confused with Amazophrynella minuta prior to its naming according to the original publication. Menin, Pegorini, Carvalho, Rojas-Zamora, and Gordo, 2014, Zootaxa, 3826: 393–396, reported on larval morphology. See map by Rojas-Zamora, Fouquet, Ron, Hernández-Ruz, Melo-Sampaio, Chaparro, Vogt, Carvalho, Pinheiro, Ávila, Farias, Gordo, and Hrbek, 2018, PeerJ, 6(e4941): 7, who discussed evolution within the genus. Rojas-Zamora, Carvalho, Ávila, Kawashita-Ribeiro, Hrbek, and Gordo, 2018, Zootaxa, 4459: 193–196, described the advertisement call. Schiesari, Rossa-Feres, Menin, and Hödl, 2022, Zootaxa, 5223: 28–29, detailed larval and metamorph morphology and natural history.  

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