Etymologies of Brazilian Amphibians

Herpetologia Brasileira - Suplemento 1
callipygia: G. kállos (κάλλος), physical beauty, beauty + G. pygis (πΰγής), buttocks,
rump, arse. Hyla callipygia Cruz & Peixoto, 1985 “1984”. (“... O
nome atribuído é de origem grega e faz alusão à ornamentação cloacal ...”).
Also Aplastodiscus callipygius — Faivovich et al., 2005. Boana callipygia
— Wiens et al., 2005. In the synonymy of Aplastodiscus albosignatus (A.
Lutz & B. Lutz, 1938).
camacan: T. Camacan, members of a linguistic family of native-Brazilians (from
T. cama, hill + T. quaá, hole). Physalaemus camacan Pimenta et al., 2005.
(“... It is composed of the words “cama” and “quá”, meaning “a narrow
valley between rounded hills ... The specific name honours the Camacan
indians, which inhabited the same region where this new frog was found,
between the rivers Pardo and Contas ...”).
camaquara: T. camaquara, well-digger. Leptodactylus camaquara Sazima & Bokermann,
1978. (“... O nome camaquara é de origem indígena e significa
poceiro e é dado em alusão ao hábito dessa espécie de fazer escavações ...”).
camba: Gu. kamba, a demonym for black persons; by extension, used to refer to
the aboriginal populations of the eastern plains of Bolivia. Phyllomedusa
camba De la Riva, 2000. [“... from the Bolivian word “camba”, which designates
the indigenous people from the lowlands (or the “oriente”, mostly
in Santa Cruz, Beni, and Pando), as opposite to the people from the Andean
highlands and valleys, which are called “collas” ...”].
cambaraensis: P. Cambará [do Sul], municipality in the state of Rio Grande do
Sul, Brazil (from T. camará, a shrub, probably of the genus Lantana) + L.
-ensis, belonging to a place. Melanophryniscus cambaraensis P. Braun &
C. Braun, 1979. (“... O nome cambaraensis refere-se ao município onde
foi coletada a nova espécie, Cambará do Sul, ao qual está restrita sua distribuição
geográfica até o momento ...”).
cambui: P. Cambuí, from T. kambuí, diverse trees of the family Myrtaceae. Hypsiboas
cambui Pinheiro et al., 2016. (“... derived from the tupi ‘‘Kãbu’i,’’
attributed to many species of small o medium-size twisted trees of Myrtaceae
that occur close to streams and wet soils, like those of the locality
where we found the species. Also, the local people know the area where the
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