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
text
Amphibian & Reptile Conservation
2019
e 180
2019-07-14
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.11404264
1525-9153
11404264
Stefania breweri
Barrio-Amorós and Fuentes, 2003
*
Holotype
:
MBUCV 6574
.
Type locality:
“
Summit of Cerro Autana
(Wahari Kuaway), near the north ridge (
4°52’N
,
67°27’W
),
1,250 m
elevation,
Municipio Atures
,
Estado
Amazonas
,
Venezuela
.”
Distribution:
Region 5. Endemic to Autana, a tepui in Estado
Amazonas
.
Remarks:
Not seen during two expeditions to the top of Autana after the collection of the only known specimen in 1971. Autana has an extremely small surface of 1.
9 km
2
, so this is one of the most geographically restricted frog species in the world. However, it is only DD by IUCN (Stuart 2006) and
Rodríguez and Rojas-Suárez (2008)
keep it under IUCN category VU/D2; it is not even mentioned in the last edition of the Venezuelan Red Book (
Rodriguez et al. 2015
). We argue that the species (known from a single specimen, not seen during two expeditions with herpetologists in 1972 and 2001, and restricted to an area of 1.
9 km
2
) should be classified CR B2a.
Selected references:
Barrio-Amorós and Fuentes (2003)
; Stuart (2006);
Rodríguez and Rojas-Suárez (2008)
;
Barrio-Amorós and Torres (2010)
; Barrio-Amorós (2013).