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Ischnocnema epipeda (Heyer, 1984)
Eleutherodactylus epipedus Heyer, 1984, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 402: 22. Holotype: MZUSP 59633, by original designation. Type locality: "Brazil: Espirito Santo; adjacent to Parque Nova Lombardia, near Santa Teresa".
Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) epipedus — Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 223.
Ischnocnema epipeda — Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: 15.
Common Names
Santa Teresa Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 74).
Distribution
Known only from near Santa Teresa, Espirito Santo, southeastern Brazil, 650 m elevation.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Brazil
Endemic: Brazil
Comment
In the Eleutherodactylus guentheri cluster of Heyer, 1984, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 402: 42. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) binotatus series, Eleutherodactylus binotatus group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 224. In the Ischnocnema guentheri species series of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 27, Canedo and Haddad, 2012, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 65: 619, Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 122, and Taucce, Canedo, Parreiras, Drummond, Nogueira-Costa, and Haddad, 2018, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 128: 123–146 (who noted that this species had not been sampled genetically but that morphology places this species in the Ischnocnema guentheri species series). See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status (as Eleutherodactylus epipedus) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 620.
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