Leptodactylus watu 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 watu

Leptodactylus watu Silva, Magalhães, Thomassen, Leite, Garda, Brandão, Haddad, Giaretta, and Carvalho, 2020, Zootaxa, 4779: 167. Holotype:UFMG 21332, by original designation. Type locality: "Parque Estadual do Rio Doce (19.753922°S, 42.633047°W, approximately 280 m a.s.l.), in Marliéria, Minas Gerais State, southeastern Brazil". Zoobank publication registration: C5769EAA-CAF6-441F-A22F-D483E7E969C7

English Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Known from two localities in a region characterized by lowland interior Atlantic forests associated with the upper-middle Doce River drainage, in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais: (1) the type locality, at Parque Estadual do Rio Doce, and (2) Santa Bárbara do Leste, approximately 70 km southeast from the type locality.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

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

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