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
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Amphibian & Reptile Conservation
2019
e 180
2019-07-14
13
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.11404264
1525-9153
11404264
Rhinella beebei
(
Gallardo, 1965
)
Holotype
:
AMNH 557774
.
Type locality:
Churchill-Roosevelt
highway, Trinidad,
Trinidad and Tobago
,
30 m
.
Distribution:
Regions 3, 5, 6. Widespread in open areas throughout northern
Venezuela
and
Trinidad
. In
Venezuela
species is found in lowland open areas, north and south of the Orinoco River, and has also been documented on Margarita Island (
Ugueto and Rivas 2010
).
Remarks:
Narvaes and Rodrigues (2009)
changed the previous concept of the
R. granulosa
species group, recognizing available subspecific names as full species levels, and invalidating others.
Bufo granulosus barbouri
from Isla Margarita and
B. g.
beebei
from the Orinoco Basin and northern
Venezuela
were considered synonyms of
R. humboldti
.
Pereyra et al. (2016)
showed two parapatric populations (one on lowlands around Puerto Ayacucho, another in uplands of Gran Sabana) as monophyletic under the name
R. humboldti
.
Murphy et al. (2017)
revised the name
beebei
for populations in
Trinidad
and northern
Venezuela
, noting differences in genetics and vocalizations among
R. humboldti
(a trans-Andean species) and
R. beebei
. Notably, no specimens from the Lake Maracaibo Basin were analyzed. Further work is required to determine if that population represents
R. humboldti
,
R. beebei
,
or
R. centralis
, and/or a combination of these species living in sympatry.
Selected references:
Some of these references are based on populations of
R. beebei
under the names
Bufo granulosus
or
Rhinella humboldti
.
Boettger (1892)
;
Lutz (1927)
;
Parker (1936)
;
Ginés (1959)
;
Rivero (1961
, 1964a-c, 1967c);
Roze (1964)
;
Gallardo (1965)
;
Tello (1968)
;
Cochran and Goin (1970)
;
Staton and Dixon (1977)
;
Duellman (1979a
, 1997);
Hoogmoed (1979b
,
1990a
);
Hoogmoed and Gorzula (1979)
;
Péfaur and Díaz De Pascual (1982
, 1987);
Rivero et al. (1986)
;
Ramo and Busto (1989
, 1990);
La Marca (1992)
;
Manzanilla et al. (1995)
;
Péfaur and Pérez (1995)
;
Yústiz (1996)
;
Murphy (1997)
;
Gorzula and Señaris (1998)
;
Rivas
and Barrio-Amorós (2005)
;
Narvaes and Rodrigues (2009)
;
Tárano (2010)
;
Ugueto and
Rivas
(2010)
;
Barrio-Amorós et al. (2011b)
;
Pereyra et al. (2016)
.