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Anomaloglossus roraima

  • 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

Anomaloglossus roraima (La Marca 1997)

Holotype: ULABG 4197.

Type locality: “Paso de la Muerte,” 60–70 m antes de la cumbre del tepuy, en el camino “La Rampa,” que conduce desde la base a la cima del Monte Roraima, Estado Bolívar, Venezuela. 2,700 m snm.”

Distribution: Region 5. Roraima in Venezuela and Wei Assipu and Maringma tepuis in Guyana, 1,860 –2,700 m asl.

Remarks: Kok et al. (2013) redescribed the species with fresh material. Originally described from a single, subadult female.

Selected references: La Marca (1997a); Grant et al. (2006); Cole et al. (2013); Kok et al. (2013); Señaris et al. (2014).

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 37, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11404264

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
ULABG
Material sample ID
ULABG 4197
Scientific name authorship
La Marca
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Anura
Family
Aromobatidae
Genus
Anomaloglossus
Species
roraima
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Anomaloglossus roraima (Marca, 1997) sec. Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic & Señaris, 2019

References

  • La Marca E. 1997 a. Ranas del genero Colostethus (Amphibia: Anura: Dendrobatidae) de la Guayana Venezolana, con la descripcion de siete nuevas especies. Publicaciones de la Asociacion Amigos de Donana 9: 1 - 64.
  • Grant T, Frost DR, Caldwell JP, Gagliardo R, Haddad CFB, Celio FB, Kok PJR, Means D B, Noonan BP, Schargel WE, et al. 2006. Phylogenetic systematics of dart-poison frogs and their relatives (Anura, Athesphatanura, Dendrobatidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 299: 1 - 262.
  • Cole CJ, Townsend CR, Reynolds RP, MacCulloch RD, Lathrop A. 2013. Amphibians and reptiles of Guyana, South America: illustrated keys, annotated species accounts, and a biogeographic synopsis. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 125: 317 - 620.
  • Senaris JC, Lampo M, Rojas-Runjaic FJM, Barrio-Amoros CL. 2014. Guia Ilustrada de los Anfibios del Parque Nacional Canaima, Venezuela. Ediciones IVIC, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas, Caracas, Miranda, Venezuela. 264 p.