Nyctimantis arapapa (Pimenta, Napoli, and Haddad, 2009)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Nyctimantis > Species: Nyctimantis arapapa

Aparasphenodon arapapa Pimenta, Napoli, and Haddad, 2009, Zootaxa, 2123: 47. Holotype: UFBA 3948, by original designation. Type locality: "Área de Proteção Ambiental (APA) Pratigi (13°44′ S, 39°01′ W, 27 m above sea level), Municipality of Ituberá, State of Bahia, Brazil".

Nyctimantis arapapa — Blotto, Lyra, Cardoso, Rodrigues, Dias, Marciano, Vechio, Orrico, Brandão, Assis, Lantyer-Silva, Rutherford, Gagliardi-Urrutia, Solé, Baldo, Nunes, Cajade, Torres, Grant, Jungfer, Silva, Haddad, and Faivovich, 2021, Cladistics, 37: 71.

English Names

Bahia’s Broad-snout Casque-headed Tree Frog (original publication).

Distribution

Coastal region of Bahia, Brazil, between the Paraguaçu and de Contas rivers. south to Ituberá.  

Comment

Larva, larval diet, advertisement call, and geographic distribution discussed by Lourenço-de-Moraes, Lantyer-Silva, Toledo, and Solé, 2013, J. Herpetol., 47: 575–579. Forti, Foratto, Márquez, Pereira, and Toledo, 2018, PeerJ, 6(e4813): 1–19, provided a brief characterization of the advertisement call. Blotto, Lyra, Cardoso, Rodrigues, Dias, Marciano, Vechio, Orrico, Brandão, Assis, Lantyer-Silva, Rutherford, Gagliardi-Urrutia, Solé, Baldo, Nunes, Cajade, Torres, Grant, Jungfer, Silva, Haddad, and Faivovich, 2021, Cladistics, 37: 36–72, discussed phylogenetic placement. 

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