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Proceratophrys korekore Santana, Alves da Silva, Sant’Anna, Shepard & Mângia, 2021
Sapo-korekore (Portuguese), Sapo-de-chifre-dosmundurukus (Portuguese) | family: Odontophrynidae genus: Proceratophrys
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Species Description: Santana, DJ, L Alves da Silva, AC Sant’Anna, DB Shepard, and S Mângia. 2021. A new species of Proceratophrys Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920 (Anura, Odontophrynidae) from Southern Amazonia, Brazil. PeerJ 9:e12012 |
Etymology: The specific epithet, “korekore” comes from the word for “frog” in the language spoken by the Munduruku people, who are indigenous to the region of Brazil that this species is found (Santana et al. 2021). |