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Rhinella sclerocephala
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 sclerocephala (Mijares-Urrútia and Arends 2001)
*Holotype: EBRG 3415.
Type locality: “ 1.5 km (by road) from Curimagua to Cerro Galicia, municipio Petit, Sierra de San Luis, Estado Falcón, Venezuela (about 11°10’N, 69°41’W), about 1,150 m.”
Distribution: Region 2. Apparently endemic to the cloud forests at Sierra de San Luis, Falcón State. No additional specimens of this species have been collected in the last 25 or so years, according to material preserved in Venezuelan museums. Other than the series by Mijares-Urrútia and Arends (2001) no other specimens are known in the scientific collections examined.
Selected references: Mijares-Urrútia and Arends (2001).
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 19, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11404264
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Additional details
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Related works
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.11404264 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/BA31FFE7FFACFF986D36FA1CFFB9FFDF (URL)
- Is source of
- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/4608879FFFB8FF8C6C0BFE31FD53F9F9 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/232129530 (URL)
- https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/298067/taxon/4608879FFFB8FF8C6C0BFE31FD53F9F9.taxon (URL)
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- EBRG
- Material sample ID
- EBRG 3415
- Scientific name authorship
- Mijares-Urrutia and Arends
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Anura
- Family
- Bufonidae
- Genus
- Rhinella
- Species
- sclerocephala
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Rhinella sclerocephala (and, 2001) sec. Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic & Señaris, 2019
References
- Mijares-Urrutia AE, Arends A. 2001. A new toad of the Bufo margaritifer complex (Amphibia, Bufonidae) from Northwestern Venezuela. Herpetologica 57: 523 - 531.