Amazophrynella minuta

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anura
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Anura

Syntypes: NHMG 462-465 (5 specimens).

Type locality: “Taracúa, Rio Uaupés, [Municipality of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, State of Amazonas,] Brazil”.

Atelopus minutus Melin, 1941: 18 [original combination]
Dendrophryniscus minutus — McDiarmid, 1971: 40 [subsequent combination]
Amazonella minuta — Fouquet, Recoder, Teixeira, Cassimiro, Amaro, Camacho, Damasceno, Carnaval, Moritz & Rodrigues, 2012: 833 [subsequent combination]
Amazophrynella minuta — Fouquet, Recoder, Teixeira, Cassimiro, Amaro, Camacho, Damasceno, Carnaval, Moritz & Rodrigues, 2012: 68 [subsequent combination]

Melin, D. 1941. Contributions to the knowledge of the amphibia of south America. Göteborgs Kungliga Vetenskaps- och Vitterhets-Samhälles handlingar. Serien B Matematiska och Naturvetenskapliga Skrifter Följd 6. Band 1(No. 4): 1–71. Reference page.
Fouquet, A., Recoder, R., Teixeira Jr., M., Cassimiro, J., Amaro, R.C., Camacho, A., Damasceno, R., Carnaval, A.C., Moritz, C. & Rodrigues, M.T. 2012. Molecular phylogeny and morphometric analyses reveal deep divergence between Amazonia and Atlantic Forest species of Dendrophryniscus. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 62(3): 826–838. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.11.023 Reference page.
Fouquet, A., Recoder, R., Teixeira Jr., M., Cassimiro, J., Amaro, R.C., Camacho, A., Damasceno, R., Carnaval, A.C., Moritz, C. & Rodrigues, M.T. 2012. Amazonella Fouquet et al., 2012 (Anura: Bufonidae) junior homonym of Amazonella Lundblad, 1931 (Acari: Unionicolidae): proposed replacement by Amazophrynella nom. nov. Zootaxa 3244: 68–68. Preview PDF. Reference page.
Rojas, R.R., Fouquet, A., de Carvalho, V.T., Ron, S.R., Chaparro, J.C., Vogt, R.C., Ávila, R.W., Farias, I.P., Gordo, M. & Hrbek, T. 2018. Redescription of the Amazonian tiny tree toad Amazophrynella minuta (Melin, 1941) (Anura: Bufonidae) from its type locality. Zootaxa 4482(3): 511–526. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4482.3.4 Reference page.

Frost, D.R. 2021. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.1. Electronic Database accessible at https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/index.php. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. DOI: 10.5531/db.vz.0001 Amazophrynella minuta . Accessed on 31 Mar 2008.
Coloma, L.A., Ron, S., Reynolds, R., Azevedo-Ramos, C. & Castro, F. 2010. IUCN: Amazophrynella minuta (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T54809A11205201. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-2.RLTS.T54809A11205201.en

English: Amazonian Tiny Tree Toad
español: Sapo diminuto de hojarasca

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