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 1 1 198 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.11404264 1525-9153 11404264 Typhlonectes compressicauda Duméril et Bibron, 1841 Lectotype : MNHNP 4269 . Type locality: “Cayenne,” French Guiana . Potomotyphlus kaupii (Berthold 1859) Distribution: Region 4. Amazon Region, in Colombia , Venezuela , Guyana , French Guiana, Brazil , and Ecuador . In Venezuela , only Puerto Ayacucho ( Gorzula and Cerda, 1979 ; Barrio-Amorós 1998). Holotype : ZFMK 27684 . Type locality: “Angostura,” Ciudad Bolívar , Venezuela . Distribution: Regions 3, 4, 5. Orinoco and Amazons Basins, in Venezuela , Colombia , Ecuador , Peru , Brazil , and French Guiana . In Venezuela , northern Amazonas and Bolívar States, and Delta of the Orinoco ( Delta Amacuro ). Remarks : CBA saw a photo of a fisherman in San Vicente , Río Apure (a major tributary of the Orinoco) which obtained one specimen fishing and used it as bait. Selected references: Taylor (1968) ; Nussbaum and Wilkinson (1989) ; Péfaur et al. (1992) ; Maciel and Hoogmoed (2011a) . Genus Typhlonectes Peters, 1880 Type species : Caecilia compressicauda Duméril and Bibron, 1841 , by subsequent designation of Dunn (1942) . Selected references : Roze (1963) ; Roze and Solano (1963) ; Taylor (1968) ; Gorzula and Cerda (1979) ; Nussbaum and Wilkinson (1989) ; Péfaur et al. (1992) ; Wilkinson (1996a , 1996b ); Lynch (1999); Maciel and Hoogmoed (2011a) .