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Issue: Vol. 4482 No. 3: 19 Sept. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-09-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4482.3.4
Page range: 511–526
Abstract views: 113
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Redescription of the Amazonian tiny tree toad Amazophrynella minuta (Melin, 1941) (Anura: Bufonidae) from its type locality

Laboratório de Evolução e Genética Animal (LEGAL), Departamento de Genética, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Av. General Rodrigo Octávio Jordão Ramos, 6200. CEP 69077–000 Manaus, AM, Brazil
USR 3456 LEEISA—Laboratoire Ecologie, Evolution et Interactions des Systèmes Amazoniens, Centre de recherche de Montabo, 275 route de Montabo, BP 70620, 97334 Cayenne, French Guiana.
Laboratório de Evolução e Genética Animal (LEGAL), Departamento de Genética, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Av. General Rodrigo Octávio Jordão Ramos, 6200. CEP 69077–000 Manaus, AM, Brazil Departamento de Química Biológia, Universidade Regional do Cariri, Campus do Pimenta, Rua Cel. Antônio Luiz, 1161, Bairro do Pimenta, CEP 63105–100, Crato, CE, Brazil.
Museo de Zoología, Escuela de Biología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Av. 12 de Octubre y Roca, Aptdo. 17–01–2184, Quito, Ecuador.
Museo de la biodiversidade-MUBI, Peru.
Departamento de Química Biológia, Universidade Regional do Cariri, Campus do Pimenta, Rua Cel. Antônio Luiz, 1161, Bairro do Pimenta, CEP 63105–100, Crato, CE, Brazil.
Departamento de Química Biológia, Universidade Regional do Cariri, Campus do Pimenta, Rua Cel. Antônio Luiz, 1161, Bairro do Pimenta, CEP 63105–100, Crato, CE, Brazil.
Laboratório de Evolução e Genética Animal (LEGAL), Departamento de Genética, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Av. General Rodrigo Octávio Jordão Ramos, 6200. CEP 69077–000 Manaus, AM, Brazil
Departamento de Biologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Av. General Rodrigo Octávio Jordão Ramos, 6200. CEP 69077–000 Manaus, AM, Brazil.
Laboratório de Evolução e Genética Animal (LEGAL), Departamento de Genética, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Av. General Rodrigo Octávio Jordão Ramos, 6200. CEP 69077–000 Manaus, AM, Brazil
Amphibia Amphibians Brazil lectotype systematics Taracuá taxonomy

Abstract

The description of Amazophrynella minuta was published in 1941 by the Swedish naturalist Douglas Melin based on material from Taracuá (Amazonas state, Brazil). This description was very brief and based on the morphology of few specimens with diagnostic characters and color variation not well defined. Moreover, the type series is currently in poor state of conservation. Consequently, taxonomic ambiguity surrounds the nominal taxon A. minuta, which hampers the description of many unnamed congeneric species. Herein, we redescribe A. minuta based on recently collected specimens from the type locality, designate a lectotype, formulate a new diagnosis, provide patterns of morphological variation, measurements and body proportions.

 

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