Allobates juami Simões, Gagliardi-Urrutia, Rojas-Runjaic, and Castroviejo-Fisher, 2018

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Dendrobatoidea > Family: Aromobatidae > Subfamily: Allobatinae > Genus: Allobates > Species: Allobates juami

Allobates juami Simões, Gagliardi-Urrutia, Rojas-Runjaic, and Castroviejo-Fisher, 2018, Zootaxa, 4387: 112. Holotype: MCP 13287, by original designation. Type locality: "an area of terra-firme forest on the east bank of the Juami River, within Estação Ecológica Juami-Japurá, State of Amazonas, Brazil (1.96455° S, 67.93579° W; ~ 87 m a.s.l.)". Zoobank publication registration: F50D5227-8022-4C2B-AE8A-8FF45A7327B5

Common Names

Juami's Nurse Frog (Jaramillo-Martinez, Vilà, Guayasamin, Gagliardi-Urrutia, Rojas-Runjaic, Simões, Chaparro, Aguilar-Manihuari, and Castroviejo-Fisher, 2025, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 471: 38). 

Rana Nodriza de Juami (Jaramillo-Martinez, Vilà, Guayasamin, Gagliardi-Urrutia, Rojas-Runjaic, Simões, Chaparro, Aguilar-Manihuari, and Castroviejo-Fisher, 2025, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 471: 38)

Distribution

Known  from the region of type locality on terra-firme forests of the east bank of the Juami River, within the Estação Ecológica Juami- Japurá, state of Amazonas, Brazil; Leticia, Colombia; likely in Ecuador as hybrids with Allobates insperatus recorded in northeastern Ecuador and southern Colombia, as well as an associated divergent mtDNA lineage around Iquitos, Peru. See comment. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil, Colombia

Likely/Controversially Present: Ecuador, Peru

Comment

See Jaramillo-Martinez, Vilà, Guayasamin, Gagliardi-Urrutia, Rojas-Runjaic, Simões, Chaparro, Aguilar-Manihuari, and Castroviejo-Fisher, 2025, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 471: 1–83, for phylogenetics, osteology, advertisement call, and a dot map. These authors also noted a hybrid zone with Allobates insperatus in the Napo-Putumayo interfluve and a divergent mitochondrial lineage (possibly a distinct species) in the populations around Iquitos, Peru.

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