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
Rhinella horribilis
(Wiegmann 1833)
Syntypes
:
ZMB 3479
(
Misantla
)
,
ZMB 3480
(no locality given)
,
ZMB
3481
(
Veracruz
)
,
ZMB
3493
(
Mexico
), all from Mexico, based on the original description
.
Lectotype
:
ZMB 3480
, assigned by
Fouquette and Dubois (2014)
.
Type locality:
“In der Umgegend von Vera Cruze,”
Mexico
.
Distribution:
Regions 1, 6. In
Venezuela
west of the Andes, including the dry valley of Chama River (
Mérida State
), up to
2,000 m
asl (Barrio-Amorós 1998; Acevedo et al. 2016); northern
Colombia
and
Panama
north throughout Central America and into the southern
United States
(Frost 2018).
Remarks:
This taxon was recently removed from synonymy with
Rhinella marina
by Acevedo et al. (2016). Populations west of the Andes formerly referred to as
R. marina
are genetically and osteologically distinct from populations east of the Andes. The form ranging from western
Venezuela
through northwestern South America north into
Mexico
and the southern
United States
should be considered as
R. horribilis
.
19B.
Rhaebo nasicus
. Female. Sierra de Lema, Bolivar. Photo: Alan Highton.
20A.
Rhinella beebei
. Puerto Ayacucho, Amazonas. Photo: César Barrio-Amorós.
20B.
Rhinella beebei
. Barinas, Barinas. Photo: Fernando Rojas-Runjaic.
20C.
Rhinella beebei
. La Guaquira, Yaracuy. Photo: Fernando Rojas-Runjaic.
20D.
Rhinella
cf.
beebei
. Northern piedmont Sierra de Perijá, Zulia. Photo: Fernando Rojas-Runjaic.
21A.
Rhinella ceratophrys
. Loreto, Peru. Photo: Danté Fenolio.
Selected references:
Mostly under the names
Rhinella marina
or
Bufo marinus
.
Alemán (1952)
;
Péfaur and Pérez (1995)
; Acevedo et al. (2016).