Caligophryne doylei Fouquet, Kok, Recoder, Prates, Camacho, Marques-Souza, Ghellere, McDiarmid, and Rodrigues, 2023

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Brachycephaloidea > Family: Caligophrynidae > Genus: Caligophryne > Species: Caligophryne doylei

Caligophryne doylei Fouquet, Kok, Recoder, Prates, Camacho, Marques-Souza, Ghellere, McDiarmid, and Rodrigues, 2023, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 191 (107971): 15. Holotype: MZUSP A159537, by original designation. Type locality: "from the base camp at “Bacia do Gelo”, in the highlands of the Serra da Neblina, Parque Nacional do Pico da Neblina, Santa Isabel do Rio Negro, Amazonas State, Brazil (0.79286 N, 66.02500 W; 2,013 m a.s.l; map datum WGS84)". Zoobank publication registration: C9F5D269-2F92-4A4D-88A4-AB652131B56D

English Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Neblina Massif of Amazonas, extreme southern Venezuela and northern Amazonas, northwestern Brazil, mostly around elevations of 2000 m. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil, Venezuela

Comment

Molecular markers and comparative morphology and osteology discussed in the original publication. 

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