Pristimantis giorgii Oliveira, Alves da Silva, Guimarães, Penhacek, Martínez, Rodrigues, Santana, and Hernández-Ruz, 2020

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Brachycephaloidea > Family: Strabomantidae > Subfamily: Pristimantinae > Genus: Pristimantis > Species: Pristimantis giorgii

Pristimantis giorgii Araujo de Oliveira, Silva, Guimarães, Penhacek, Martínez, Rodrigues, Santana, and Hernández-Ruz, 2020, PLoS One, 15 (3: e0229971): 8. Holotype: LZAG 1381, by original designation. Type locality: "Portel municipality, Pará state, Brazil (02˚59’38.10″ S; 50˚4’48.57″ W)". Zoobank publication registration: A1A7A538-68C8-401B-B706-6C7C16D87296

English Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Interfluve between the Xingu and lower Tocantins rivers in Pará state, Brazil, throughout the municipalities of Altamira (Assurini, right bank of the middle Xingu River), Portel (left bank of the lower Tocantins River), Marabá and Melgaço (Flona de Caxiuanã). 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

In the Craugastor conspicillatus group according to the original publication, where it was diagnosed on the basis of morphology, molecules, and call parameters. In the Pristimantis conspicillatus group, Pristimantis fenestratus clade of Fouquet, Réjaud, Rodrigues, Ron, Chaparro, Osorno-Muñoz, Werneck, Hrbek, Lima, Camacho-Badani, Jaramillo-Martinez, and Chave, 2022, Syst. Biodiversity, 20(1: 2130464): 1–16, who reported on phylogenetics and biogeography.  

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