Phyzelaphryne nimio Simões, Costa, Rojas-Runjaic, Gagliardi-Urrutia, Sturaro, Peloso, and Castroviejo-Fisher, 2018

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Brachycephaloidea > Family: Eleutherodactylidae > Subfamily: Phyzelaphryninae > Genus: Phyzelaphryne > Species: Phyzelaphryne nimio

Phyzelaphryne nimio Simões, Costa, Rojas-Runjaic, Gagliardi-Urrutia, Sturaro, Peloso, and Castroviejo-Fisher, 2018, Zootaxa, 4532: 216. Holotype: MCP 13719, by original designation. Type locality: "in an area of terra-firme forest on the west bank of the Juami River (Canal da Inveja), within Estação Ecológica Juami-Japurá, state of Amazonas, Brazil (1.75834° S, 67.61532° W; ~67 m a.s.l.)". Zoobank publication registration: 18EFD994-C314-4E9A-A658-CC2BBE32C6EA

Common Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Terra-firme forests in the Juami River basin, south of the Japurá River and ca. 280 km southeast to  the Reserva Extrativista do Baixo Juruá, Amazonas, Brazil.  

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

 Moraes, Rainha, Werneck, Oliveira, Gascon, and Carvalho, 2022, Pap. Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 62(e202262054): 23–24, discussed specimens from the Reserva Extrativista do Baixo Juruá, Amazonas, Brazil.

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