Allophryne ruthveni Gaige 1926
Authors/Creators
- 1. Fundación AndígenA, Apartado Postal 210, Mérida, VENEZUELA & Current address: Doc Frog Expeditions, Uvita de Osa, COSTA RICA
- 2. 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
- 3. Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Altos de Pipe, apartado 20632, Caracas 1020, VENEZUELA
Description
Allophryne ruthveni Gaige, 1926
Holotype: UMMZ 63419.
Type locality: “Tukeit Hill, below Kaiteur Falls, British Guiana.”
Distribution: Widely distributed in the Amazonian Region of Venezuela, Guyana, and Suriname into central Brazil. Regions 4 and 5. In Venezuela, known from several localities south of the Orinoco River, in states Amazonas (Surumoni) and Bolívar (upper Caura River, upper Paragua River, Sierra de Imataca, San Martín de Turumbán, Cuyuní, upper Uey River). See Duellman (1997); Barrio-Amorós (1998); Señaris and Rivas (2008), and Señaris et al. (2009).
Remarks: Until recently, Allophryne was considered a monotypic genus, containing only A. ruthveni. Two additional species have been described: A. resplendens from the upper Amazon in Peru (Castroviejo-Fisher et al. 2012) and A. relicta from the Mata Atlantica Forest in Brazil (Caramaschi et al. 2013).
Selected references: Lynch and Freeman (1966); Hoogmoed (1969); Rivero et al. (1986); Duellman (1997); Caldwell and Hoogmoed (1998); Fabrezi and Langone (2000); Señaris and Rivas (2008); Señaris et al. (2009); Castroviejo-Fisher et al. (2012); Caramaschi et al. (2013).
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- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.11404264 (DOI)
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- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/4608879FFFABFF9F6EA7F891FC3FFA1A (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/232129168 (URL)
- https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/298067/taxon/4608879FFFABFF9F6EA7F891FC3FFA1A.taxon (URL)
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- UMMZ
- Material sample ID
- UMMZ 63419
- Scientific name authorship
- Gaige
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Anura
- Family
- Allophrynidae
- Genus
- Allophryne
- Species
- ruthveni
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Allophryne ruthveni Gaige, 1926 sec. Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic & Señaris, 2019
References
- Duellman WE. 1997. Amphibians of La Escalera region, Southeastern Venezuela: taxonomy, ecology and biogeography. Scientific Papers of the Natural History Museum, University of Kansas 2: 1 - 52.
- Lynch JD, Freeman HL. 1966. Systematic status of a South American frog, Allophryne ruthveni Gaige. University of Kansas Publications, Museum Natural History 17: 493 - 502.
- Hoogmoed MS. 1969. Notes on the herpetofauna of Surinam II. On the occurrence of Allophryne ruthveni Gaige (Amphibia, Salientia, Hylidae) in Surinam. Zoologische Mededelingen 4: 75 - 81.
- Rivero JA, Langone JA, Prigioni CM. 1986. Anfibios anuros colectados por la expedicion del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Montevideo al rio Caura, estado Bolivar, Venezuela; con la descripcion de una nueva especie de Colostethus (Dendrobatidae). Comunicaciones Zoologicas del Museo de Historia Natural de Montevideo 11: 1 - 15.
- Caldwell JP, Hoogmoed MS. 1998. Amphibia: Anura: Allophrynidae: Allophryne ruthveni. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles 666: 1 - 3.