ME < L septentrionalis < septentriones, the seven stars of Ursa Major, lit., seven plowing oxen < septem, seven + trio, plow ox < base of terere, to rub: see throw
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These new records represent the northeastern known localities for this species and expand the septentrional limit of its geographic distribution.
Marcos Antônio Melo, Kleber Evangelista Rodrigues, Sostenes José Souza Pelegrini,Renato Augusto Martins 2018, 'Range extension and natural history comments of periurban populations of Sphaenorhynchuscaramaschii Toledo, Garcia, Lingnau & Haddad, 2007 (Anura, Hylidae) in thestate of São Paulo, Brazil', Check Listhttps://checklist.pensoft.net/article/26189/download/pdf/. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)