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
298067
10.5281/zenodo.11404264
7eabb3cb-039d-4906-b7a4-6de4d0d47294
1525-9153
11404264
Ceratophrys calcarata
Boulenger, 1890
Holotype
:
BMNH
1947.2.17.
28 (formerly 89.12.16.168).
Type locality:
“
Colombia
.”
Distribution:
Region 3, 6. Caribbean lowlands of
Colombia
and
Venezuela
. In
Venezuela
, distribution is in the northwestern portion of the country (Maracaibo Lake Basin,
Falcón
and
Lara
States), with a disjunct population in the surroundings of Puerto Ayacucho, southeast of the Orinoco River in
Amazonas State
.
43.
Hyalinobatrachium mesai
.
Male. Southern slope of
Sarisariñama tepui
, Bolivar. Photo: Mark Moffett.
44.
Hyalinobatrachium mondolfii
.
Male. Salto Río Lindo, Sierra de Imataca, Delta Amacuro. Photo: Fernando Rojas-Runjaic.
45.
Hyalinobatrachium orientale
. Male. Macuro, Península de Paria, Sucre. Photo: César Barrio-Amorós.
46.
Hyalinobatrachium orocostale
. Cerro Platillón, Guárico. Photo: Santiago Castroviejo-Fisher.
47A.
Hyalinobatrachium
aff.
pallidum
. Male. San Isidro, Barinas. Photo: César Barrio-Amorós.
47B.
Hyalinobatrachium pallidum
. Male. Quebrada La
Rana
, south of Santa Cruz de Mora, Mérida. Photo: César Barrio-Amorós.
48A.
Hyalinobatrachium tatayoi
. Male. Río Frío, Mérida. Photo: César Barrio-Amorós.
48B.
Hyalinobatrachium tatayoi
. Female. Ipika,
Tokuko river
basin, Sierra de Perijá, Zulia. Photo: Fernando Rojas-Runjaic.
49.
Hyalinobatrachium taylori
. Female. Quebrada de Jaspe, Gran Sabana, Bolivar. Photo: César Barrio-Amorós.
50A.
Ceratophrys calcarata
. Puerto Nuevo, Falcón. Photo: César Barrio-Amorós.
50B.
Ceratophrys calcarata
. Falcón. Photo: Edward Camargo.
50C.
Ceratophrys calcarata
. Puerto Ayacucho, Amazonas. Photo: Zelimir Cernelic.
Remarks:
Faivovich et al. (2014)
recovered the phylogenetic relationships of the family
Ceratophryidae
, placing
Ceratophrys calcarata
as a sister species of
C. cornuta
.
Selected references:
Boulenger (1890)
;
Lutz (1927)
;
Ginés (1959)
;
Rivero (1961
,
1964b
);
Lynch (1982)
;
La Marca (1986
,
1995a
);
Mijares-Urrútia and Arends (1993)
;
Frost et al. (2006)
;
Faivovich et al. (2014)
.