Ololygon cataguas Folly, Assis, Santana, Lacerda, Lourenço, and Feio, 2026

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Genus: Ololygon > Species: Ololygon cataguas

Ololygon cataguas Folly, Assis, Santana, Lacerda, Lourenço, and Feio, 2026, Herpetologica, 82: 242. Holotype: MZUFV 16722, by original designation. Type locality: "Santa Maria community, Glória district, Cataguases municipality (21°14′05″S, 42°41′25″W; datum = WGS84, 425 m a.s.l.), Minas Gerais state, Brazil". No ZooBank registration so will take the date of publication from the date of distribution of the paper-printed version. 

Common Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Known only from the municipality of Cataguases, Zona da Mata region, Minas Gerais state, southeastern Brazil, 425 to 820 m elevation. 

Comment

In the Ololygon catherinae group according to the original publication, where comparative adult morphology, advertisement call, and molecular markers (mtDNA) were detailed and where this species was equated to Ololygon sp. 15 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): 1–145.

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