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Boana alfaroi (Caminer and Ron, 2014)
Hypsiboas alfaroi Caminer and Ron, 2014, ZooKeys, 370: 47. Holotype: QCAZ 43262, by original designation. Type locality: "Ecuador, Provincia Orellana, Parque Nacional Yasuní, 1 km from Northern Production Facilities (NPF) oil camp (0.6893°S, 76.4290°W), 238 m above sea level". Zoobank: http://zoobank.org/6D92050D-8BC3-44FD-A749-5B50DD8D2F73
Boana alfaroi — Dubois, 2017, Bionomina, 11: 28.
English Names
Alfaro's Treefrog (original publication).
Distribution
Northern Amazonian region of Ecuador (Napo, Orellana, and Sucumbíos provinces), Colombia (Valle de Guamuez, Putumayo department, and Municipio Solano, Caquetá) and Assis, Acre, Brazil, elevations of 176 to 350 m; expected in intervening Peru.
Comment
In the Hypsiboas albopunctatus species group, Hypsiboas calcaratus complex, most similar to Hypsiboas tetete according to the original publication, where morphology, morphometrics, molecular markers, and advertisement call were detailed. Carvalho, Bang, Teixeira, and Giaretta, 2017, Check List, 13(4): 135–139, provided the record from Assis, Acre, Brazil. Meza-Joya, Ramos-Pallares, and Hernández-Jaimes, 2019, Herpetol. Notes, 12: 391–400, reported the species from Valle del Guamez, Putumayo Department, Colombia. Medina-Rangel, Thompson, Ruiz-Valderrama, Fajardo Muñoz, Lombana Lugo, Londoño-Guarnizo, Moquena Carbajal, Ríos Rosero, Sánchez Pamo, and Sánchez, 2019, in Pitman et al. (eds.), Bajo Caguán–Caquetá, Rapid Invent. 30: 118, reported the species from Peñas Rojas, Municipio Solano, Caquetá Department, Colombia. Rainha, Martinez, Moraes, Castro, Réjaud, Fouquet, Leite, Rodrigues, and Werneck, 2021, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 134: 177–197, included this species in their Boana steinbachi clade and discussed phylogenetics and the influence of subtle environmental factors on geographic variation in morphology.
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