Ololygon melloi Peixoto, 1989

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Ololygon > Species: Ololygon melloi

Ololygon melloi Peixoto, 1989 "1988", Arq. Univ. Fed. Rural Rio de Janeiro, 11: 28. Holotype: EI 7608, by original designation. Type locality: "Brasil, Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Teresópolis, Parque Nacional da Serra dos Órgãos".

Scinax melloiDuellman and Wiens, 1992, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 151: 15, 23.

Ololygon melloi — Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016, Zootaxa, 4104: 26.

Common Names

Southeastern Brazil Snouted Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 64).

Distribution

Known only from the Serra dos Orgãos in southeastern Brazil.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

In the Scinax perpusillus according to the original publication. In the Scinax catharinae clade, Scinax perpusillus group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 96. In the Ololygon perpusilla group of Araujo-Vieira, Lourenço, Lacerda, Lyra, Blotto, Ron, Baldo, Pereyra, Suárez-Mayorga, Baêta, Ferreira, Barrio-Amorós, Borteiro, Brandão, Brasileiro, Donnelly, Dubeux, Köhler, Kolenc, Leite, Maciel, Nunes, Orrico, Peloso, Pezzuti, Reichle, Rojas-Runjaic, Silva, Sturaro, Langone, Garcia, Rodrigues, Frost, Wheeler, Grant, Pombal, Haddad, and Faivovich, 2023, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 27 (Special Issue): 59 (see comment under Hylinae).

External links:

Please note: these links will take you to external websites not affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History. We are not responsible for their content.