Adenomera heyeri Boistel, Massary, and Angulo, 2006

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Leptodactylidae > Subfamily: Leptodactylinae > Genus: Adenomera > Species: Adenomera heyeri

Adenomera heyeri Boistel, De Massary, and Angulo, 2006, Acta Herpetol., Firenze, 1: 4. Holotype: MNHNP 1999.8331, by original designation. Type locality: "MNHN fied station of Saint-Eugene (4° 51′ N; 53° 3′ W, 65 m elevation), 23 ikm by air from the newly built Petit Saut Dam, Courcibo River, principal tributary of the Sinnamary River, French Guiana".

Leptodactylus (Lithodytes) heyeri — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 362, by implication; Angulo, De Massary, and Boistel, 2006, Acta Herpetol., Firenze, 1: 159.

Adenomera heyeri — Kwet, Steiner, and Zillikens, 2009, Stud. Neotrop. Fauna Environ., 44: 94, by implication' Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 574.

Common Names

None noted.

Distribution

Central and southern Guyana and northern Pará (Brazil) east throughout Suriname and French Guiana and Amapá (Brazil).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname

Comment

External morphology and the advertisement call were detailed in the original publication. Boistel, De Massary, and Angulo, 2006, Acta Herpetol., Firenze, 1: 159-162, provided a number of corrections to the original publication. Fouquet, Dewynter, Gaucher, Blanc, Marty, Rodrigues, and Ernst, 2011, Check List, 7: 601-605, provided new records and a distribution map for the species. Taucce, Costa-Campos, Carvalho, and Michalski, 2022, Eur. J. Taxon., 836: 96–130, reported on distribution, literature, and conservation status for Amapá, Brazil.

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