Microcaecilia cf. rochai Maciel & Hoogmoed, 2011

Fouquet, Antoine, Vidal, Nicolas & Dewynter, Maël, 2019, The Amphibians of the Mitaraka massif, French Guiana, Zoosystema 41 (19), pp. 359-374 : 372

Microcaecilia cf. rochai Maciel & Hoogmoed, 2011

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TYPE LOCALITY. — Brazil, Pará, Reserva Pacanari.

DISTRIBUTION. — Brazil northern Pará, Amapá and southwest French Guiana.

TAXONOMIC REMARKS. — This genus is particularly diversified in the GS and no less than nine species have been described since 2010. Many of these species are known only from their type locality. The two collected specimens superficially fit with the description of Microcaecilia rochai . Nevertheless, we only tentatively assign the collected specimens to M. rochai until further examination.

HABITAT IN MITARAKA. — Two specimens of this species were found by other biologists looking for soil fauna.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — La Planète Revisitée Guyane 2015, MNHN-PNI, APA973-1: AF2846 ; AF2866 .

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FIG. 2. — Seven remarkable species found during the survey: A, Adenomera hylaedactyla (Cope, 1868); B, Anomaloglossus mitaraka Fouquet, Vacher, Courtois, Deschamps, Ouboter, Jairam, Gaucher, Dubois & Kok, 2019; C, Chiasmocleis aff. haddadi Peloso, Sturaro, Forlani, Gaucher, Motta & Wheeler, 2014; D, Hyalinobatrachium kawense Castroviejo-Fisher, Vilà, Ayarzagüena, Blanc & Ernst, 2011; E, Pristimantis aff. pluvialis Shepack, von May, Ttito & Catenazzi, 2016; F, Synapturanus cf. mirandaribeiroi Nelson & Lescure, 1975; G, Microcaecilia cf. rochai Maciel & Hoogmoed, 2011.