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
Osteocephalus helenae
(Ruthven 1919)
Holotype
:
UMMZ 52681
.
Type locality:
Valley of the Demerara River, Dunoon,
Guyana
.
Distribution:
Region 5. Widely distributed in lowlands of Amazon Region (
Bolivia
,
Peru
,
Colombia
,
Brazil
,
Colombia
,
Venezuela
,
Guyana
, and French Guiana). In
Venezuela
, known from several localities in
Bolívar
and
Delta Amacuro
States (Barrio-Amorós 1998,
Señaris and Ayarzagüena 2004
).
Remarks:
Osteocephalus helenae
is the name that must apply to southern Venezuela’s green, tuberculated, medium-sized
Osteocephalus
. Specimens of this species in this region have been known under two names:
Osteocephalus buckleyi
(
Boulenger 1882
)
with distribution now restricted to Upper Amazon in
Peru
,
Colombia
, and
Ecuador
(
Jungfer et al. 2013
); and
Osteocephalus cabrerai
(
Cochran and Goin 1970
)
, first reported from
Venezuela
by
Gorzula and Señaris (1998)
. All specimens examined by
Jungfer et al. (2013)
from the Guiana Shield fall in the same clade, and only name
O. helenae
is applicable. In
Osteocephalus buckleyi
species group (
Jungfer et al. 2013
).
Selected references:
Cochran and Goin (1970)
;
Trueb and Duellman (1971)
;
Duellman and Mendelson (1995)
;
Gorzula and Señaris (1998)
;
Señaris and Ayarzagüena (2004)
;
Jungfer et al. (2013)
.