Dendropsophus tintinnabulum (Melin, 1941)

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

Hyla tintinnabulum Melin, 1941, Göteborgs K. Vetensk. Vitterh. Samh. Handl., Ser. B, 1: 29. Syntypes: NHMG 473 (3 specimens), according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 106. Type locality: "Rio Uaupés (some days' journey north of Ipanoré), [Amazonas,] Brazil".

Dendropsophus tintinnabulumFaivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 93.

English Names

Rio Uaupes Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 58).

Distribution

Known with precision only from the District of Cucuí, Amazonas, Brazil. 

Comment

Unnassigned to species group according to Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 93. Tentatively placed in the Dendropsophus microcephalus group by Teixeira and Giaretta, 2017, Phyllomedusa, 15: 119–126, who reported on its range, ecology, external morphology, and calls. In the Dendropsophus microcephalus 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. 

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