Pseudopaludicola javae Silva, Andrade, Painkow, Dantas, Haga, and Garda, 2023

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Leptodactylidae > Subfamily: Leiuperinae > Genus: Pseudopaludicola > Species: Pseudopaludicola javae

Pseudopaludicola javae Silva, Andrade, Painkow, Dantas, Haga, and Garda, 2023, J. Herpetol., 57: 299. Holotype: CHUFPB31044, by original designation. Type locality: "Fazenda Escondida, -9.8844268, -49.7791398 (WGS84), 179 m a.s.l., Tocantins State, Marianópolis Municipality, Brazil". Zoobank publication registration: 336C8130-B10B-400E-8A23-124DD2A79CA8

Common Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Known from western Tocantins state, from Marianopolis in the north to Cristalândia in the south, as well as in immediately adjacent extreme southeastern Pará, and extreme northeastern Mato Grosso, Brazil. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

Comparative morphology, advertisement call, molecular markers, natural history, and evolutionary placement (the sister of Pseudopaludicola jazmynmcdonaldae + Pseudopaludicola mysticalis) detailed in the original publication. Rachid, Coelho, Carvalho, Recoder, Farhat, Rodrigues, and Moraes, 2025, Herpetol. Bull., London, 174: 23–27, reported on morphology and diet, and provided (and mapped) new records from Santa Terezinha municipality, Pará state and Santana do Araguaia, Mato Grosso state, Brazil. 

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