Rhinatrema koki Wilkinson and Bittencourt-Silva, 2025

Class: Amphibia > Order: Gymnophiona > Family: Rhinatrematidae > Genus: Rhinatrema > Species: Rhinatrema koki

Rhinatrema koki Wilkinson and Bittencourt-Silva, 2025, J. Vert. Biol., Prague, 74 (25060): 7. Holotype: USNM 566004, by original designation. Type locality: "Mabura Hill (town), ca. 25 mi (airline) WSW of Magdalen’s Creek camp, near (ca. 300 yds) NW bank of the River Konawaruk, Mazaruni-Potaro, Guyana". ZooBank publication registration: 823C94AA-B340-452F-869E-FCBDFF02924E

Common Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Known only from the type locality (Mabura Hill [town], Mazaruni-Potaro, Guyana). 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Guyana

Endemic: Guyana

Comment

Comparative genetic markers and external morphology and osteology reported in the original publication. Prior to its recognition as a distinct species, treated as Rhinatrema bivittatum by 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: 25, and as Rhinatrema shiv by Cole, Townsend, Reynolds, MacCulloch, and Lathrop, 2013, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 125: 438. 

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