Catalogue of the amphibians of Venezuela: Illustrated and annotated species list, distribution, and conservation
Author
Barrio-Amorós, César L.
Fundación AndígenA, Apartado Postal 210, Mérida, VENEZUELA & Current address: Doc Frog Expeditions, Uvita de Osa, COSTA RICA
cesarlba@yahoo.com
Author
Rojas-Runjaic, Fernando J. M.
Fundación La Salle de Ciencias Naturales, Museo de Historia Natural La Salle, Apartado Postal 1930, Caracas 1010 - A, VENEZUELA & Current address: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Río Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Laboratório de Sistemática de Vertebrados, Av. Ipiranga 6681, Porto Alegre, RS 90619 - 900, BRAZIL
rojas_runjaic@yahoo.com
Author
Señaris, J. Celsa
Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Altos de Pipe, apartado 20632, Caracas 1020, VENEZUELA
celsisenaris@gmail.com
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Amphibian & Reptile Conservation
2019
e 180
2019-07-14
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.11404264
1525-9153
11404264
Rhinella marina
(Linnaeus 1758)
Holotype
:
Not identified (originally in the collection of Albertus Seba).
Type locality:
“America.” Restricted to
Suriname
by
Müller and Hellmich (1936)
.
Distribution:
Regions 3, 4, 5. After the partition of
Rhinella marina
into two species (Acevedo et al. 2016), the name
marina
is now applied to populations occurring east of the Andes in
Venezuela
and
Colombia
, south to central
Brazil
to
Bolivia
. This species has been introduced onto several islands and into countries in the Caribbean, Pacific, and Indian Oceans (
Zug and Zug 1979
), although distinction between
R. marina
and
R. horribilis
invasive populations has yet to be determined.
Remarks:
All populations sampled west of the Andes are currently recognized as
Rhinella horribilis
(Acevedo et al. 2016)
. These authors, however, did not include in their analysis samples of
R. marina
from the majority of
Venezuela
. The current authors have observed important morphological and acoustic differences in populations east of the Andes, at least in
Venezuela
. A wider sample should be analyzed to properly assess the complex taxonomy and nomenclature of these species and/or species complex.
Selected references:
Lichtenstein and von Martens (1856);
Lutz (1927)
;
Ginés (1959)
;
Rohl (1959)
;
Rivero (1961
,
1964a
–d, 1967a);
Heatwole et al. (1965)
;
Tello (1968)
;
Staton and Dixon (1977)
;
Hoogmoed and Gorzula (1979)
;
Rivero-Blanco and Dixon (1979)
;
Zug and Zug (1979)
;
Péfaur and Díaz De Pascual (1982
, 1987);
Hoogmoed and Gruber (1983)
;
Gremone et al. (1986)
;
Rivero et al. (1986)
;
Hoogmoed (1989)
;
La Marca (1992)
;
Manzanilla et al. (1995)
;
Evans and Lampo (1996)
;
Duellman (1997)
;
Gorzula and Señaris (1998)
;
Barrio-Amorós and Brewer-Carías (2008)
; Barrio-Amorós (2010a); Ugueto and Rivas-Fuenmayor (2010);
Barrio-Amorós et al. (2011b)
;
Señaris et al. (2014)
; Acevedo et al. (2016).