Arcovomer passarellii Carvalho, 1954

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Gastrophryninae > Genus: Arcovomer > Species: Arcovomer passarellii

Arcovomer passarellii Carvalho, 1954, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 555: 9. Holotype: MNRJ 1012 (cleared and stained), by original designation. Type locality: "Duque de Caxias, Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil".

Common Names

Passarelli's Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 87).

Distribution

Southern Espírito Santo, Brazil.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

See Pombal and Bastos, 1992, Herpetol. Rev., 23: 85, who note that records from Espírito Santo probably represent a distinct, smaller species. Izecksohn and Carvalho-e-Silva, 2001, Anf. Municipio Rio de Janeiro: 91, provided a brief account and photo. Malagoli, Condez, and Haddad, 2012, Check List, 8: 505-506, provided a range extension within São Paulo, Brazil, and commented on the range. Jennings, Wogel, Bilate, Salles, and Buckup, 2015, Mitochondrial DNA, 27: 3415–3422, suggested on the basis of DNA barcoding that the population in Espiritu Santo, Brazil, is a distinct species from the populations in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. Prior to 2026 Arcovomera moqueca and Arcovomer ubatuba were included within Arcovomer passarellii, which were differentiated on advertisement calls, morphometrics, and molecular markers by Andrade, Lyra, Baêta, and Toledo, 2026, Salamandra, 62: 77–96, who provided a dot map of the distribution.  

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