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Oreophrynella vasquezi Senaris, Ayarzaguena and Gorzula 1994

  • 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

Oreophrynella vasquezi Señaris, Ayarzagüena and Gorzula, 1994 *

Holotype: MHNLS 10244.

Type locality: Ilú-tepui I, Bolívar State, Venezuela (5°25’N, 60°58’W); elevation 2,650 m.

Distribution: Region 5. Endemic to Ilú, a tepui in Bolívar State.

Selected references: Señaris et al. (1994, 2014); Gorzula and Señaris (1998).

Notes

Published as part of Barrio-Amorós, César L., Rojas-Runjaic, Fernando J. M. & Señaris, J. Celsa, 2019, Catalogue of the amphibians of Venezuela: Illustrated and annotated species list, distribution, and conservation, pp. 1-198 in Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 180) (e 180) 13 (1) on page 13, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11404264

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MHNLS
Material sample ID
MHNLS 10244
Scientific name authorship
Senaris, Ayarzaguena and Gorzula
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Anura
Family
Bufonidae
Genus
Oreophrynella
Species
vasquezi
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Oreophrynella vasquezi Senaris, 1994 sec. Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic & Señaris, 2019

References

  • Ayarzaguena J, Senaris JC. 1994. Dos nuevas especies de Hyla (Anura, Hylidae) para las cumbres tepuyanas del estado Amazonas, Venezuela. Memoria de la Sociedad de Ciencias Naturales La Salle 53: 127 - 146.
  • Gorzula S, Senaris JC. 1998. Contribution to the herpetofauna of the Venezuelan Guayana. I. A data base. Scientia Guaianae 8: 1 - 267.