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
Callimedusa tomopterna
(Cope 1868)
Syntypes
:
USNM 6651
(
two specimens
; lost)
.
Type locality:
“Rio Napo, or Upper Amazon, below the mouth of the former,” Departamento
Loreto
,
Perú
.
Distribution:
Regions 4, 5.
Colombia
,
Ecuador
,
Peru
,
Bolivia
,
Brazil
,
Venezuela
,
Guyana
,
Suriname
, and
French Guiana
. In
Venezuela
, south of Orinoco River, in states of
Amazonas
,
Bolívar
, and
Delta Amacuro
. See list of localities and distribution map in
Barrio-Amorós (2009b)
.
223.
Synapturanus salseri
.
Cuao, Amazonas. Photo: César Barrio-Amorós.
224A.
Agalychnis medinae
.
El Silencio, Sierra de Aroa, Yaracuy. Photo: Fernando Rojas-Runjaic.
224B.
Agalychnis medinae
.
Amplexus. Cerro Zapatero, Nirgua Massif, Yaracuy. Photo: Sebastian Lotzkat.
225.
Callimedusa tomopterna
.
Imataca Forestal Reserve, Delta Amacuro. Photo: César Barrio-Amorós.
226.
Pithecopus hypochondrialis
.
Imataca Forestal Reserve, Delta Amacuro. Photo: César Barrio-Amorós.
227.
Phyllomedusa bicolor
.
Surroundings of Puerto Ayacucho, Amazonas. Photo: César Barrio-Amorós.
Remarks
: Divergence among samples of this species from the upper Amazon and Guianas suggest at least two species may be hidden within the name
Callimedusa tomopterna
(
Faivovich et al. 2010
)
, but a thorough revision is needed to assess this hypothesis.
Selected references:
Funkhouser (1957)
; Duellman (1968, 1974b, 1997);
Cannatella (1980)
;
Barrio and Rivero (1999a)
;
Barrio-Amorós (2009b)
;
Faivovich et al. (2010)
.