Physalaemus araxa Leal, Zornosa-Torres, Augusto-Alves, Dena, Pezzuti, Leite, Lourenço, Garcia, and Toledo, 2021

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

Physalaemus araxa Leal, Zornosa-Torres, Augusto-Alves, Dena, Pezzuti, Leite, Lourenço, Garcia, and Toledo, 2021, Eur. J. Taxon., 764: 124. Holotype: ZUEC-AMP 24095, by original designation. Type locality: "BRAZIL . . .; state of Espírito Santo, municipality of Ibitirama, Parque Nacional do Caparaó, Lagoa da Sombra; 20.421778° S, 41.802500° W; 2505 m a.s.l.; datum WGS84". Zoobank publication registration: AE566208-36CD-4FB6-A6C9-EDECB157B9B1

English Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Known only from the type locality (Lagoa da Sombra, Parque Nacional do Caparaó, municipality of Ibitirama, Espírito Santo, Brazil). 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

In the Physalaemus signifer clade according to the original publication, where adult and larval external morphology, morphometrics, advertisement call, karyotype, and 12S mtDNA markers, which place this species as the sister taxon of Physalaemus maculiventris, with which it had previously been confused. 

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