Physalaemus aguirrei Bokermann, 1966

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Leptodactylidae > Subfamily: Leiuperinae > Genus: Physalaemus > Species: Physalaemus aguirrei

Physalaemus aguirrei Bokermann, 1966, Physis, Buenos Aires, 26: 194. Holotype: WCAB 19303, by original designation; now MZUSP. Type locality: "Refugio Sooretama, Linhares, Espírito Santo, Brasil".

English Names

Linhares Dwarf Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 83).

Distribution

Southern Bahia and northern Espírito Santo to northeastern Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Comment

In the Physalaemus olfersii group of Nascimento, Caramaschi, and Cruz, 2005, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 63: 311. Van Sluys, 1998, Herpetol. Rev., 29: 49, reported the species for Bahia, Brazil. Pimenta and Cruz, 2004, Amphibia-Reptilia, 25: 197–204, described the larval morphology and advertisement call. Carvalho and Nascimento, 2005, Herpetol. Rev., 36: 200, provided the first state record for Minas Gerais. Canelas and Filogonio, 2010, Herpetol. Rev., 41: 376, provided an additional record in Minas Gerais and discussed the range. In the Physalaemus cuvieri clade of Lourenço, Targueta, Baldo, Nascimento, Garcia, Andrade, Haddad, and Recco-Pimentel, 2015, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 92: 204–216. Hepp and Pombal, 2020, Zootaxa, 4725: 1–106, discussed this species as part of a genus-wide discussion of bioacoustical traits among the species. 

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