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Ameerega ignipedis Brown and Twomey, 2009
Ameerega ignipedis Brown and Twomey, 2009, Zootaxa, 2049: 5. Holotype: MUSM 24948, by original designation. Type locality: "Departamento Loreto, Peru, 17.5 km NE Contamana at the western foot of the Serranía de Contamana, 240 m elevation, 7° 11′ 55.46″ S, 74° 57′ 35.28″ W. Type locality near "El Unión", a campsite located at the confluence of a hot-water and cold-water stream."
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Known only from two localities in the Serranía de Contamana, but probably occurs more widely throughout the foothills of the Serranía de Contamana as well as other parts of the Sierra del Divisor, Departamento Loreto, Peru.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Peru
Endemic: Peru
Comment
The advertisement call was described in the original publication as well as external morphology and natural history. In the Ameerega hahneli species group of Guillory, French, Twomey, Chávez, Prates, von May, De la Riva, Lötters, Reichle, Serrano-Rojas, Whitworth, and Brown, 2020, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 142 (106638): 1–13. Crnobrna, Santa-Cruz Farfan, Gallegos, López-Rojas, Llanqui, Panduro Pisco, and Kelsen Arbaiza, 2023, Check List, 19: 441, provided a record from Ucayali Department, central-eastern Peru.
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