- What is Amphibian Species of the World?
- How to cite
- How to use
- Structure of the taxonomic records
- Running log of additions and corrections, 2024
- Logs of changes and additions, 2014–2023
- What is the right name?
- Curator's blog
- Amphibian Species of the World on social media
- History of the project, 1980 to 2024
- Comments on amphibian taxonomy relating to versions 3.0 to 6.2 (2004 to 2024)
- Scientific Nomenclature and its Discontents: Comments by Frost on Rules and Philosophy of Taxonomy, Ranks, and Their Applications
- Contributors, online editions
- Contributors and reviewers for Amphibian Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (1985)
- Versions
- Museum abbreviations
- Links to useful amphibian systematic, conservation, collection management, informational, and/or regional sites
- Links to useful FREE library sites
- Copyright and terms of use
Phyllonastes myrmecoides (Lynch, 1976)
Euparkerella myrmecoides Lynch, 1976, Herpetologica, 32: 50. Holotype: TCWC 41532, by original designation. Type locality: "Mishana (2 1/2 hours by speedboat up the Río Nanay from the Navy dock 5 km NNE Iquitos), Depto. Loreto, Perú".
Phyllonastes myrmecoides — Heyer, 1977, Pap. Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 31: 152; Lynch, 1986, J. Herpetol., 20: 426; von May, Diaz, Ttito, Santa-Cruz Farfan, and Catenazzi, 2024, Diversity, 16 (613): 0.
Noblella myrmecoides — De la Riva, Chaparro, and Padial, 2008, Zootaxa, 1685: 68.
Common Names
Loreto Leaf Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 83).
Distribution
Upper Amazon basin of southeastern Colombia (Departamento Amazonas in the Leticia region), eastern Ecuador (Orellana Province), northeastern to southeastern Peru (Departments of Loreto, Ucauali, San Martín, Huánuco, Cusco, and Madre de Dios), Bolivia (Departments of Cochabamba and La Paz), and western Brazil (Amazonas).
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
Comment
See Hoogmoed and Lescure, 1984, Zool. Meded., Leiden, 58: 88, for Brazilian records. Rodríguez and Duellman, 1994, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 22: 63–64, provided a brief account for the Iquitos region of northeastern Peru as Phyllonastes myrmecoies. De la Riva, Köhler, Lötters, and Reichle, 2000, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 14: 57, and Köhler, 2000, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 48: 69, consider this species possibly to occur in Bolivia. Reichle, Aguayo-Vedia, and Cortez F., 2004, Herpetol. Rev., 35: 283, reported this species in Bolivia. Cisneros-Heredia and Reynolds, 2007, Herpetozoa, Wien, 19: 184-186, provided a record for Tiputini Biodiversity station, Orellana Province, Ecuador, and discussed the range of the species. Lynch, 2005, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 29: 587-588, reported this species from the region of Leticia, Colombia. See Duellman and Lehr, 2009, Terrest.-breeding Frogs in Peru: 93-94, for brief account. See brief account for the Manu region, Peru, by Villacampa-Ortega, Serrano-Rojas, and Whitworth, 2017, Amph. Manu Learning Cent.: 58–59. Metcalf, Marsh, Torres Pacaya, Graham, and Gunnels, 2020, Herpetol. Notes, 13: 753–767, reported the species from the Santa Cruz Forest Reserve, Loreto, northeastern Peru. Crnobrna, Santa-Cruz Farfan, Gallegos, López-Rojas, Llanqui, Panduro Pisco, and Kelsen Arbaiza, 2023, Check List, 19: 446, provided a record from Ucayali Department, central-eastern Peru.
External links:
Please note: these links will take you to external websites not affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History. We are not responsible for their content.
- For access to general information see Wikipedia
- For additional sources of general information from other websites search Google
- For access to relevant technical literature search Google Scholar
- For images search CalPhoto Images and Google Images
- To search the NIH genetic sequence database, see GenBank
- For additional information see AmphibiaWeb report
- For information on conservation status and distribution see the IUCN Redlist
- For information on distribution, habitat, and conservation see the Map of Life
- For related information on conservation and images as well as observations see iNaturalist
- For additional information specific to Ecuador see FaunaWebEcuador: Anfibios del Ecuador
- For access to available specimen data for this species, from over 350 scientific collections, go to Vertnet.