Dendropsophus counani Fouquet, Orrico, Ernst, Blanc, Martinez, Vacher, Rodrigues, Ouboter, Jairam, and Ron, 2015

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Dendropsophus > Species: Dendropsophus counani

Dendropsophus counani Fouquet, Orrico, Ernst, Blanc, Martinez, Vacher, Rodrigues, Ouboter, Jairam, and Ron, 2015, Zootaxa, 4052: 44. Holotype: MNHN2015.0101, by original designation. Type locality: "'“Grande Montagne Tortue', (4.292663, -52.349539, 400 m elevation), municipality of Régina, French Guiana". Zoobank publication registration: 176D8B81-ED65-4A0E-A49E-894F16EEF457

English Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Central Guyana through Suriname to central and northeastern French Guiana as well as into Amapá, Brazil. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana

Comment

In the Dendropsophus parviceps group and previously confused with Dendropsophus brevifrons according to the original publication. See account for Suriname population (as Dendropsophus brevifrons) by Ouboter and Jairam, 2012, Amph. Suriname: 110-112. See Cole, Townsend, Reynolds, MacCulloch, and Lathrop, 2013, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 125: 399, for brief account (as Dendropsophus brevifrons) and records for Guyana.  Lescure and Marty, 2000, Collect. Patrimoines Nat., Paris, 45: 156-157, provided a photo and brief account for Guiana (as Dendropsophus brevifrons). In the Dendropsophus parviceps group of Orrico, Grant, Faivovich, Rivera-Correa, Rada, Lyra, Cassini, Valdujo, Schargel, Machado, Wheeler, Barrio-Amorós, Loebmann, Moravec, Zina, Solé, Sturaro, Peloso, Suárez, and Haddad, 2021, Cladistics, 37: 73–105. Taucce, Costa-Campos, Carvalho, and Michalski, 2022, Eur. J. Taxon., 836: 112, noted that records of Dendropsophus brevifrons from Amapá, Brazil (published by Benício and Lima, 2017, Herpetol. Notes, 10) are referrable to Dendropsophus counani.

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