Rhinella moralesi Lehr, Cusi, Rodríguez, Venegas, García Ayachi, and Catenazzi, 2021

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Bufonidae > Genus: Rhinella > Species: Rhinella moralesi

Rhinella moralesi Lehr, Cusi, Rodríguez, Venegas, García Ayachi, and Catenazzi, 2021, Taxonomy, 1: 213. Holotype: MUSM 15959, by original designation. Type locality: "Río Abiseo Valley, collected within a radius of 1 km around Jucusbamba (7°53′17.002″ S, 77°11′49.009″ W, WGS84 GPS coordinates, not to be confused with Jucusbamba in Departamento La Libertad) at ca. 1830 m a.s.l., Río Abiseo National Park, Departamento San Martín, Peru". Zoobank publication registration: BE76DE75-AF3A-4B99-9351-B11A65D0AC29

English Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Known from seven montane forest localities between 1788 and 2305 m elevation in Departamentos Amazonas (Provinces of Bongara and Bagua) and San Martín (Province of Mariscal Cáceres), Peru. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Peru

Endemic: Peru

Comment

In the Rhinella festae group according to the original publication,  where the morphology of this species was compared in detail to other members of the group. 

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