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
Tepuihyla rodriguezi
(Rivero 1968)
Holotype
:
MCZ 64740
.
Type locality:
Paso del Danto
,
Región de La Escalera
, entre El Dorado y Santa Elena
de Uairén
,
1,300–1,400 m
, Serranía de Lema, Estado
Bolívar
,
Venezuela
.
Distribution:
Region 5. With synonymizing of
Tepuihyla galani
,
T. talbergae
,
and
T. rimarum
with
T. rodriguezi
(
Jungfer et al. 2013
,
Kok et al. 2015
), the distribution of the latter now extends from Paso el Danto in the northern versant of Sierra de Lema (
type
locality) through the higher sectors of the Gran Sabana, the foothills of Guadacapiapu tepui (
type
locality of
T. galani
), atop of Ptari-tepui (
type
locality of
T. rimarum
), and as low as Kaieteur National Park in
Guyana
(
type
locality of
T. talbergae
), altitudinal range 366–
2,440 m
.
Remarks.
Tepuihyla galani
(Ayarzagüena, Señaris et Gorzula, 1993)
,
T. talbergae
Duellman and Yoshpa, 1996
, and
T. rimarum
(Ayarzagüena, Señaris and Gorzula 1993)
recently synonymized with
T. rodriguezi
by
Jungfer et al. (2013)
and
Kok et al. (2015)
.
Selected References
: Rivero (1968);
Ayarzagüena et al. (1992a
,b);
Duellman and Yoshpa (1996)
;
Duellman (1997)
;
Gorzula and Señaris (1998)
;
Kok and Kalamandeen (2008)
;
Jungfer et al. (2013)
;
Señaris et al. (2014)
;
Kok et al. (2015)
.