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Anomaloglossus stepheni (Martins, 1989)
Colostethus stepheni Martins, 1989, Rev. Brasil. Biol., 49: 1010. Holotype: MZUSP 64569, by original designation. Type locality: "proveniente da bica da vila residencial da Usina Hidroeléctrica de Balbin, município de Presidente Figueiredo (aprox. 2°05′ S, 59°55′ W; alt. 50 m), Estado do Amazonas, Brasil".
Anomaloglossus stepheni — Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 158.
Common Names
Stephen's Rocket Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 49).
Distribution
States of Pará and Amazonas, Brazil, to southern Suriname (see comment).
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Brazil, Suriname
Comment
Advertisement call characterized in the original publication. Prior to the revision of Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299, Morales, 2002 "2000", Publ. Asoc. Amigos Doñana, 13: 1-59, provided an account and placed this species in his Colostethus trilineatus group. In the Anomaloglossus stepheni group of Vacher, Kok, Rodrigues, Lima, Lorenzini, Martinez, Fallet, Courtois, Blanc, Gaucher, Dewynter, Jairam, Ouboter, Thébaud, and Fouquet, 2017, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 112: 158–173, delimited the range of the species and noted that this species is associated with several cryptic species in Suriname, French Guiana, and Brazil. Juncá, Altig, and Gascon, 1994, Copeia, 1994: 747–750, described tadpole morphology. Schiesari, Rossa-Feres, Menin, and Hödl, 2022, Zootaxa, 5223: 27–28, detailed larval and metamorph morphology and natural history.
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