Pristimantis moa 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 moa

Pristimantis moa Araujo de Oliveira, Silva, Guimarães, Penhacek, Martínez, Rodrigues, Santana, and Hernández-Ruz, 2020, PLoS One, 15 (3: e0229971): 20. Holotype: ZUFMS-AMP 8558, by original designation. Type locality: "Palmeirante municipality, Tocantins state, Brazil (07˚51’35.83″S; 47˚57’12.38"W)". Zoobank publication registration: A1A7A538-68C8-401B-B706-6C7C16D87296

English Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Municipalities of Palmas, Palmeirante and Araguaína in Tocantins state and Carolina, Balsas and Riachão in Maranhão state, Brazil. 

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 molecules, morphology and call characteristics. 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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