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
Pipa arrabali
Izecksohn, 1976
Holotype
: EI 5311 (destroyed by fungus, Peixoto and Gomes 2007).
Type locality:
“Vila Amazônia, Município de Parintins,
Estado do Amazonas
,
Brasil
.”
Distribution:
Venezuela
,
Guyana
,
Suriname
, and
Brazil
. In
Venezuela
, known only from a few localities in eastern
Bolívar State
.
Remarks:
Specimens referred previously as
Pipa aspera
by
La Marca (1992)
are in fact
P. arrabali
(
Trueb and Cannatella 1986
)
. Both species very similar, differing only by narrow or wide separation of the nostrils
sensu
Trueb and Cannatella (1986)
. Both taxa are mostly sympatric, so validity of
P. arrabali
is doubtful, it could be a junior synonym of
P. aspera
despite the morphological support offered by Trueb and Masserin (2001).
Selected references:
Trueb and Cannatella (1986)
;
Duellman (1997)
; Peixoto and Gomes (2007);
Barrio-Amorós and Duellman (2009)
;
Barrio-Amorós et al. (2011b)
;
Señaris et al. (2014)
.