Leptodactylus diedrus Heyer, 1994

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Leptodactylidae > Subfamily: Leptodactylinae > Genus: Leptodactylus > Species: Leptodactylus diedrus

Leptodactylus diedrus Heyer, 1994, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 546: 86. Holotype: UTA A-3726, by original designation. Type locality: "Colombia; Vaupés; 1/2 mi NE Timbó, 1°06′N, 70°01′W".

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Northwestern sector of the Amazon basin in northeastern Peru, southwestern Colombia, western Amazonian Brazil, and extreme southern Venezuela.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela

Comment

In the Leptodactylus wagneriLeptodactylus podicipinus complex, according to the original publication. Heyer, 1998, Alytes, 16: 1–24, suggested that this species might be the sister taxon of Vanzolinius. Barrio-Amorós, 1999 "1998", Acta Biol. Venezuelica, 18: 42, commented in range in Venezuela. França and Venâncio, 2010, Biotemas, 23: 71–84, provided a record for the municipality of Boca do Acre, Amazonas, with a brief discussion of the range. In the Leptodactylus melanonotus species group of de Sá, Grant, Camargo, Heyer, Ponssa, and Stanley, 2014, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 9(Spec. Issue 1): 1–123, and who provided a summary of relevant literature (adult morphology, identification, advertisement call, and range) on p. 72. See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 90, for comments on range in Venezuela and literature. Metcalf, Marsh, Torres Pacaya, Graham, and Gunnels, 2020, Herpetol. Notes, 13: 753–767, reported the species from the Santa Cruz Forest Reserve, Loreto, northeastern Peru. Carvalho, Fouquet, Lyra, Giaretta, Costa-Campos, Rodrigues, Haddad, and Ron, 2022, Syst. Biodiversity, 20 (1: 2089269): 1–31, reported on the systematics, phylogenetics, and advertisement call. Gagliardi-Urrutia, García Dávila, Jaramillo-Martinez, Rojas-Padilla, Rios-Alva, Aguilar-Manihuari, Pérez-Peña, Castroviejo-Fisher, Simões, Estivals, Guillen Huaman, Castro Ruiz, Angulo Chávez, Mariac, Duponchelle, and Renno, 2022, Anf. Loreto: 140–141, provided a brief account, photograph, dot map, and genetic barcode for Loreto, Peru.

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