Rhinatrema uaiuai Maciel, Sampaio, Hoogmoed, and Schneider, 2018

Class: Amphibia > Order: Gymnophiona > Family: Rhinatrematidae > Genus: Rhinatrema > Species: Rhinatrema uaiuai

Rhinatrema uaiuai Maciel, Sampaio, Hoogmoed, and Schneider, 2018, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 13: 290. Holotype: MPEG 26477, by original designation. Type locality: "Serra do Acaraí, ESEC Grão-Pará Norte (01°17′7.51″N, 58°41′45.24″W; 500 m elevation), municipality of Oriximiná, State of Pará, Brazil". 

English Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Known only from the type locality (Serra do Acaraí, ESEC Grão-Pará Norte (500 m elevation), municipality of Oriximiná, State of Pará, Brazil, very near to the southern Guyana border. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Likely/Controversially Present: Guyana

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

The sister taxon of Rhinatrema bivittatum according to the original publication. 

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