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
13
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.11404264
1525-9153
11404264
Aromobates leopardalis
(
Rivero 1978
)
*
Holotype
:
UPRM 5157
.
Type locality:
“
Mucubají,
3,300 m
, Edo.
Mérida
,
Venezuela
.”
Distribution:
Region 1.
Páramo
and
subpáramo
habitat in Sierra
Nevada
,
Merida State
,
2,400
–3,300
m
asl.
Remarks:
Not seen in recent years, probably very endangered or extinct.
Barrio-Amorós and Santos (2012)
state that 1995 was the last year it was seen.
72.
Aromobates haydeeae
. Páramo Zumbador, Táchira. Photo: Amelia Díaz de Pascual.
73.
Aromobates mayorgai
.
Surroundings of Chorotal, Mérida. Photo: Fernando Rojas-Runjaic.
74A.
Aromobates meridensis
.
Altos de San Luis, La Azulita, Mérida. Photo: César Barrio-Amorós.
74B.
Aromobates
cf.
meridensis
. Way from Mérida to El Morro, Mérida. Photo: Aldemar A. Acevedo.
75.
Aromobates ornatissimus
. Aguas de Obispos, Trujillo. Photo: César Barrio-Amorós.
76.
Aromobates saltuensis
.
Coloncito, Táchira. Photo: César Barrio-Amorós.
Selected references:
Rivero (1978
,
1988
); La Marca (1991b);
Mijares-Urrútia (1991)
;
Myers et al. (1991)
;
Barrio-Amorós (2001c
, 2013);
Barrio-Amorós and Santos (2012)
.