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 Boana boans (Linnaeus 1758) Lectotype : ZIUU 27 ; designated by implication (Mertens 1940). Type locality : “America.” Distribution: Regions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Widely distributed in northern South America, in the Darien and Chocó Regions, and Magdalena, Orinoco, and Amazon Basins ( Panama , Colombia , Ecuador , Venezuela , Brazil , Guianas, and Trinidad ). Common riparian element in the lowlands of southern Venezuela ( Amazonas , Bolívar , and Delta Amacuro to as far north as Península de Paria). Also, in the eastern piedmont of the Venezuelan Andes ( Barinas and Táchira ). Remarks : The Andean piedmont population (Barrio-Amorós 1999g , 2001a) is continuous from the eastern versant of the Cordillera Oriental de Colombia and thus from the Upper Amazon, fitting the Amazonian distribution pattern for western Venezuela suggested by Barrio-Amorós (1998). However, the Barinas and Táchira populations are much smaller and with a different pattern from those from the south of the Orinoco. Chacón-Ortiz et al. (2005) probably confused by such difference, reported B. rosenbergi , a Central American and Chocoan species, from Táchira State , and the same specimens mentioned by Chacón-Ortiz et al. (2005) were previously reported correctly as B. boans (Barrio-Amorós 1999, 2001a). Specimens from throughout the whole species distribution should be compared using molecular and bioacoustic data, as they may be a species complex. In the Boana semilineata species group ( Faivovich et al. 2005 ). Some specimens are still confused in collections with the very similar B. wavrini ( Hoogmoed 1990b ) . Selected references: Ginés (1959) ; Rivero (1961 , 1964b , 1967a ); Heatwole et al. (1965) ; Duellman (1971a , 1997); Gremone et al. (1986) ; Hoogmoed (1990b) ; Donnelly and Myers (1991) ; Magdefrau et al. (1991) ; Gorzula and Señaris (1998) ; Barrio-Amorós (1999, 2001a); Arrington and Arrington (2000) ; Lynch and Suárez-Mayorga (2001) ; Chacón et al. (2005); Barrio-Amorós and Brewer-Carías (2008) ; Barrio-Amorós et al. (2011b) ; Mendoza (2014) ; Señaris et al. (2014) .