Paratelmatobius segallai Santos, Oliveira, Carvalho, Zaidan, Silva, Berneck, and Garcia, 2019

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Leptodactylidae > Subfamily: Paratelmatobiinae > Genus: Paratelmatobius > Species: Paratelmatobius segallai

Paratelmatobius segallai Santos, Oliveira, Carvalho, Zaidan, Silva, Berneck, and Garcia, 2019, Zootaxa, 4648: 478. Holotype: CFBH 43545, by original designation. Type locality: "Brazil: state of Paraná: municipality of Piraquara: Parque Estadual Pico do Marumbi: Mananciais da Serra: 'Salto' trail (25°29′53.18′′S, 48°58′53.45′′W, 1040 m above sea level)". Zoobank publication registration: 6EFC650A-E3DF-4DC0-932F-3226C476CB57

English Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Known only from the type locality in the municipality of Piraquara, state of Paraná, in the Serra do Mar mountain range, southern Brazil. See comment regarding extralimital cryptic species. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

The original publication detailed the advertisement call as well as external adult and larval morphology and molecular markers. Santos, Oliveira, Carvalho, Zaidan, Silva, Berneck, and Garcia, 2019, Zootaxa, 4648: 485, discussed unanswered taxonomic questions about morphologically similar frogs in adjacent areas of São Paulo, which show karyological and mtDNA differences. Santos, Magalhães, Lyra, Zaher, Giasson, Garcia, Carnaval, and Haddad, 2020, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 148 (106819): 1–18, noted three cryptic species in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. 

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