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Nyctimantis arapapa (Pimenta, Napoli, and Haddad, 2009)
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.
Common 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.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Brazil
Endemic: Brazil
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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