Diasporus amirae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Brachycephaloidea

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 Superfamilia: Brachycephaloidea

Familia: Eleutherodactylidae
Subfamilia: Eleutherodactylinae
Genus: Diasporus
Species: Diasporus amirae

Name

Diasporus amirae Arias, Chaves, Salazar, Salazar-Zúñiga & García-Rodríguez, 2019: 277

• Holotype: UCR 21843, adult ♂, collected by Gerardo Chaves, Adrián García-Rodríguez, Stanley Salazar, and Gilbert Alvarado on 8 March 2013.
• Type locality: “Costa Rica: Provincia de Limón: Cantón de Limón: Distrito de Matama: Cerro Plátano (9.870º, -83.240º; 1000 m a.s.l.) in the northeastern of the Cordillera de Talamanca”.
• Paratypes (5): UCR 21842, adult ♂, same data as the holotype; UCR 22010–2, adult ♂, from of Plátano peak, near of type locality (9.869º, -83.241º; 1121 m a.s.l.), collected by Gerardo Chaves, José Andrés Salazar-Zúñiga, Julissa Gutiérrez, Diego Salas, and Ruperto Madrigal on 6 September 2013; UCR 22554, adult ♂ from Plátano peak, near of type locality (9.863º, -83.236º; 1000 m a.s.l.), collected by Gerardo Chaves, José Andrés Salazar-Zúñiga, and Juan Ignacio Abarca on 18 June 2015.

References

Primary references

• Arias, E., Chaves, G., Salazar, S., Salazar-Zúñiga, J.A. & García-Rodríguez, A. 2019. A new species of dink frog, genus Diasporus (Anura: Eleutherodactylidae), from the Caribbean foothills of the Cordillera de Talamanca, Costa Rica. Zootaxa 4609(2): 269–288. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4609.2.4 Reference page. 

Vernacular names

English: Amira's Dink Frog