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Rhinella ceratophrys

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

Rhinella ceratophrys (Boulenger 1882)

Holotype: BM 80.12.5.151.

Type locality: “ Ecuador.”

Distribution: Region 5. Widely distributed in upper Amazon Basin, from northeastern Peru, through eastern Ecuador and southeastern Colombia, into southern Venezuela. Its occurrence in Brazil was presumed (Fenolio et al. 2012) and verified by Rojas-Runjaic et al. (2017). These last authors reported new localities for this species with specimens from Venezuela at Cerro Marahuaca and at Cerro de la Neblina, Amazonas State. Elevations 1,350 –2,713 m asl.

Remarks: Mijares-Urrútia and Arends (2001) confused a female specimen of Rhaebo nasicus from La Escalera with Rhinella ceratophrys (CBA, personal observation). Barrio-Amorós (1998) doubted the identity of Rivero’s record (based on a single juvenile of 12 mm SVL). However, Fenolio et al. (2012) recently verified the Venezuelan specimen and confirmed its identity using morphological and morphometric data. Recent reports of this species from up- and highland western tepuis solves its distribution in Venezuela. Further sampling and analyses will determine if a species complex exists and may further be elucidated (Rojas-Runjaic et al. 2017). Fouquet et al. (2007a) removed this species from the Rhinella margaritifera species group.

Selected references: Rivero (1961, 1964b); Cochran and Goin (1970); Mijares-Urrútia and Arends (2001); Fenolio et al. (2012); Rojas-Runjaic et al. (2017).

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 15, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11404264

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Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.11404264 (DOI)
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https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/298067/taxon/4608879FFFBCFF886E46FBB1FA9EFAB9.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
BM
Material sample ID
BM 80
Scientific name authorship
Boulenger
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Anura
Family
Bufonidae
Genus
Rhinella
Species
ceratophrys
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Rhinella ceratophrys (Boulenger, 1882) sec. Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic & Señaris, 2019

References

  • Boulenger GA. 1882. Catalogue of the Batrachia Salientia, s. Ecaudata in the Collection of the British Museum. 2 nd Edition. British Museum, London, United Kingdom. 503 p.
  • Fenolio D, Mendelson III JR, Lamar W. 2012. New diagnosis and description of variation among adult Rhinella ceratophrys (Boulenger) (Amphibia: Bufonidae), with notes on ecology and distribution. South American Journal of Herpetology 7: 9 - 15.
  • Mijares-Urrutia AE, Arends A. 2001. A new toad of the Bufo margaritifer complex (Amphibia, Bufonidae) from Northwestern Venezuela. Herpetologica 57: 523 - 531.
  • Fouquet A, Gaucher P, Blanc M, Velez-Rodriguez CM. 2007 a. Description of two new species of Rhinella (Anura: Bufonidae) from the lowlands of the Guiana shield. Zootaxa 1663: 17 - 32.
  • Rivero JA. 1961. Salientia of Venezuela. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 126: 1 - 267.
  • Rivero JA. 1964 b. The distribution of Venezuelan frogs V. The Venezuelan Guayana. Caribbean Journal of Science 4: 411 - 420.
  • Cochran D, Goin C. 1970. Frogs of Colombia. United States National Museum Bulletin 288: 1 - 655.