Dendropsophus jamesi Moravec, Farková, Vences, and Köhler, 2025

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Genus: Dendropsophus > Species: Dendropsophus jamesi

Dendropsophus jamesi Moravec, Farková, Vences, and Köhler, 2025, Salamandra, 61: 288. Holotype: NMP-P6V 73618/1, adult male (Figs 4a–c, 5), from the vicinity of the settlement of Palmira, 10°35’ S, 65°44’ W, ca. 140 m a.s.l., Provincia Federico Roman, Departamento Pando, Bolivia". 

Common Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Known from the type locality, lying on the left bank of the Río Beni and from the vicinity of the town Cobija, both in the Departamento Pando, northern Bolivia; and questionably (as Dendropsophus cf. jamesi) to Bolpebra, central Bolivia. Expected in adjacent Brazil. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Bolivia

Likely/Controversially Present: Brazil

Endemic: Bolivia

Comment

Comparative morphology, genetic markers (mtDNA), and advertisement call detailed in the original publication, where this species, formerly confused with Dendropsophus riveroi, was suggested to be in the Dendropsophus microcephalus group, the sister taxon of Dendropsophus riveroi

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