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Amazophrynella Fouquet, Recoder, Teixeira, Cassimiro, Amaro, Camacho, Damasceno, Carnaval, Moritz, and Rodrigues, 2012
Amazonella Fouquet, Recoder, Teixeira, Cassimiro, Amaro, Camacho, Damasceno, Carnaval, Moritz, and Rodrigues, 2012, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 62: 832. Type species: Atelopus minutus Melin, 1941, by original designation. Junior homonym of Amazonella Lundblad, 1921 (Acari).
Amazophrynella Fouquet, Recoder, Teixeira, Cassimiro, Amaro, Camacho, Damasceno, Carnaval, Moritz, and Rodrigues, 2012, Zootaxa, 3244: 68. Replacement name for Amazonella Fouquet, Recoder, Teixeira, Cassimiro, Amaro, Camacho, Damasceno, Carnaval, Moritz, and Rodrigues, 2012.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Throughout Amazonia, at low to moderate altitudes in Venezuela, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana and French Guyana, and presumably in Suriname and Bolivia.
Comment
Fouquet, Recoder, Teixeira, Cassimiro, Amaro, Camacho, Damasceno, Carnaval, Moritz, and Rodrigues, 2012, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 62: 826-838, suggested that the genus is the sister taxon of Dendrophryniscus. Rojas-Zamora, Carvalho, Gordo, Ávila, and Farias, 2014, Zootaxa, 3753: 79-95, presented molecular evidence of unnamed species in western Amazonia and the Guiana Shield region. Portik and Papenfuss, 2015, BMC Evol. Biol., 15 (152): 5, suggested that Amazophrynella is distant from Dendrophryniscus and the sister taxon of the non-"atelopodine" bufonids. Rojas-Zamora, Chaparro, Carvalho, Ávila, Farias, Hrbek, and Gordo, 2016, ZooKeys, 563: 43–71, reported on molecular phylogenetics of the species in the genus, noting two unnamed species. Rojas-Zamora, Fouquet, Ron, Hernández-Ruz, Melo-Sampaio, Chaparro, Vogt, Carvalho, Pinheiro, Ávila, Farias, Gordo, and Hrbek, 2018, PeerJ, 6(e4941): 1–56, discussed the molecular phylogenetics within the genus and reviewed the morphology and acoustic variation within the genus, naming several species and noting a number of other candidate species. For identification of Amazophrynella sp. larvae (as Dendrophryniscus minutus) in central Amazonia, Brazil, see Hero, 1990, Amazoniana, 11: 201–262. Moraes, Werneck, Réjaud, Rodrigues, Prates, Glaw, Kok, Ron, Chaparro, Osorno-Muñoz, Vechio, Recoder, Marques-Souza, Rojas-Zamora, Demay, Hrbek, and Fouquet, 2022, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 136: 75–91, reported on the molecular phylogenetics and biogeography of the species. and suggested that several more species remain to be named.
Contained taxa (13 sp.):
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