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Aromobates leopardalis
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
Aromobates leopardalis (Rivero 1978) *
Holotype: UPRM 5157.
Type locality: “ Mucubají, 3,300 m, Edo. Mérida, Venezuela.”
Distribution: Region 1. Páramo and subpáramo habitat in Sierra Nevada, Merida State, 2,400 –3,300 m asl.
Remarks: Not seen in recent years, probably very endangered or extinct. Barrio-Amorós and Santos (2012) state that 1995 was the last year it was seen.
Selected references: Rivero (1978, 1988); La Marca (1991b); Mijares-Urrútia (1991); Myers et al. (1991); Barrio-Amorós (2001c, 2013); Barrio-Amorós and Santos (2012).
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 pages 40-42, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11404264
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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/4608879FFF85FFB36E5BFC91FE93FEF9 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/232129335 (URL)
- https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/298067/taxon/4608879FFF85FFB36E5BFC91FE93FEF9.taxon (URL)
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- UPRM
- Material sample ID
- UPRM 5157
- Scientific name authorship
- Rivero
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Anura
- Family
- Aromobatidae
- Genus
- Aromobates
- Species
- leopardalis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Aromobates leopardalis (Rivero, 1978) sec. Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic & Señaris, 2019
References
- Rivero JA. 1978. Notas sobre los anfibios de Venezuela III. Nuevos Colostethus de los Andes Venezolanos. Memoria de la Sociedad de Ciencias Naturales La Salle 38: 95 - 111.
- Barrio-Amoros CL, Santos JC. 2012. A phylogeny for Aromobates (Anura: Dendrobatidae) with description of three new species from the Andes of Venezuela, taxonomic comments on Aromobates saltuensis, A. inflexus, and notes on the conservation status of the genus. Zootaxa 3422: 1 - 31.
- Rivero JA. 1988. Sobre las relaciones de las especies del genero Colostethus (Amphibia, Dendrobatidae). Memoria de la Sociedad de Ciencias Naturales La Salle 48: 3 - 32.
- Mijares-Urrutia AE. 1991. Descripcion del renacuajo de Colostethus leopardalis Rivero con algunos comentarios sobre su historia natural. Amphibia-Reptilia 12: 145 - 152.
- Myers CW, Paolillo A, Daly JW. 1991. Discovery of a defensively malodorous and nocturnal frog in the family Dendrobatidae: phylogenetic significances of a new genus and species from the Venezuelan Andes. American Museum Novitates 3002: 1 - 33.
- Barrio-Amoros CL. 2001 c. State of knowledge on the declination of amphibians in Venezuela. Froglog 47: 2 - 4.