Elachistocleis corumbaensis Piva, Caramaschi, and Albuquerque, 2017

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Gastrophryninae > Genus: Elachistocleis > Species: Elachistocleis corumbaensis

Elachistocleis corumbaensis Piva, Caramaschi, and Albuquerque, 2017, Phyllomedusa, 16: 146. Holotype: ZUFMS-AMP 924, by original designation. Type locality: "Brazil , state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Corumbá (Parque Municipal de Piraputangas, 19° 16′ S, 57° 38′ W, datum = WGS 84)". 

Engystoma corumbaensis — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 216. 

English Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Known only from the Parque Municipal de Piraputangas and the Maciço do Urucum, located in the western part of the Pantanal, Mato Grosso do Sul, north into southwestern Mato Grosso, Brazil; expected to have a larger range, likely extending into adjacent Bolivia. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Likely/Controversially Present: Bolivia

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

New records from southwestern Mato Grosso, Brazil, provided by Silva-Alves, D’Ávila, Costa, Barbosa, Brum, Silva, Ignácio, Carniello, Muniz, Santos, Seba, Nogueira, Silva, Gusmão, Mudrek, Silva, and Canale, 2019, Check List, 15: 17–20. Jowers, Othman, Borzée, Rivas-Fuenmayor, Sánchez-Ramírez, Auguste, Downie, Read, and Murphy, 2021, Organisms Divers. Evol., 21: 189–206, discussed the phylogenetics and biogeography of this species. Excluded from the Elachistocleis bicolor and Elachistocleis surinamensis species groups by Novaes-e-Fagundes, Lyra, Loredam, Carvalho, Haddad, Rodrigues, Baldo, Barrasso, Loebmann, Ávila, Brusquetti, Prudente, Wheeler, Orrico, and Peloso, 2023, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 197: 545–568.  

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