Leptodactylus kilombo Alves da Silva, Magalhães, Thomassen, Leite, Garda, Brandão, Haddad, Giaretta, and Carvalho, 2020

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Leptodactylidae > Subfamily: Leptodactylinae > Genus: Leptodactylus > Species: Leptodactylus kilombo

Leptodactylus kilombo Silva, Magalhães, Thomassen, Leite, Garda, Brandão, Haddad, Giaretta, and Carvalho, 2020, Zootaxa, 4779: 158. Holotype: CHUFPB 28204, by original designation. Type locality: "Bezerra stream (12.897899°S, 46.810419°W; 626 m above sea level [a.s.l.]), in Arraias, Tocantins State, northern Brazil". Zoobank publication registration: C5769EAA-CAF6-441F-A22F-D483E7E969C7

English Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Known only from two localities in the extreme southeast of Tocantins, the type locality (Arraias) and Conceição do Tocantins, as well as from a single locality in northeastern Goiás (Flores de

Goiás) and a single locality in western Bahia (Bom Jesus da Lapa). 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

In the Leptodactylus mystaceus complex, Leptodactylus fuscus group, previous confused with Leptodactylus mystaceus, according to the original publication. 

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