Dendropsophus mapinguari Peloso et al., 2016

Moraes, Leandro João Carneiro de Lima, Rainha, Raíssa do Nascimento, Werneck, Fernanda de Pinho, Oliveira, Alan Filipe de Souza, Gascon, Claude & Carvalho, Vinícius Tadeu de, 2022, Amphibians and reptiles from a protected area in western Brazilian Amazonia (Reserva Extrativista do Baixo Juruá), Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 62, pp. 1-34 : 24

Dendropsophus mapinguari Peloso et al., 2016

A member of the Dendropsophus leucophyllatus (Beireis, 1783) group recently described, D. mapinguari is until now only known to three localities in central Amazonia, Brazil ( Peloso et al., 2016). In the original description, authors suggest that this narrow distribution could be underestimated, as they are segregated by large rivers already recognized as geographic barriers for some Amazonian frogs ( Fouquet et al., 2014), and D. mapinguari frequently exploit the flooded habitats, which favors individual dispersion and gene flow ( Harvey et al., 2017). In fact, D. mapinguari was recently reported for a new locality in the Negro River basin (Igor Fernandes, pers. comm.), and this record extends the known distribution of this species ca. 600 km west of this (nearest) locality.