Gastrotheca williamsoni Gaige 1922
- 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
Gastrotheca williamsoni Gaige, 1922 *
Holotype: UMMZ 55559.
Type locality: San Esteban, Carabobo, Venezuela.
Distribution: Region 2. Known only from type locality.
Remarks: Not collected since original description. Either extremely rare, or extinct, or Gastrotheca walkeri could be a junior synonym. A review of this species is needed to clarify its taxonomy and conservation status. Duellman (2015) distinguished G. williamsoni from G. walkeri based on four morphological characters (absence of supraciliary processes ― vs present in walkeri ―, fingers ½ webbed ― vs ¼ webbed in walkeri ―, first finger longer than second ― shorter in walkeri ―, and granular tympanic annulus ― smooth in walkeri. The only known locality of G. williamsoni lies within the distribution of G. walkeri, and no additional specimen obtained for almost a century. As both species share a unique character among marsupial frogs (paired retroperitoneal brood pouches), have overlapping geographic distributions, and only differ in morphological traits prone to preservation artifacts, makes us doubt the validity of G. walkeri; assessing their taxonomic status requires further investigation. Included in subgenus Cryptotheca by Duellman (2015) or in Gastrotheca longipes species group sensu Castroviejo-Fisher et al. (2015).
Selected references: Gaige (1922); Lutz (1927); Ginés (1959); Rohl (1959); Rivero (1961, 1964a); Duellman (1980, 2015); Duellman et al. (1988); Barrio-Amorós (2013).
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- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.11404264 (DOI)
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Biodiversity
- Collection code
- UMMZ
- Family
- Hemiphractidae
- Genus
- Gastrotheca
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- UMMZ 55559
- Order
- Anura
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gaige
- Species
- williamsoni
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Gastrotheca williamsoni Gaige, 1922 sec. Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic & Señaris, 2019
References
- Gaige HT. 1922. A new Gastrotheca from Venezuela. Occasional Papers, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 107: 1 - 3.
- Duellman WE. 2015. Marsupial Frogs Gastrotheca and Allied Genera. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. 407 p.
- Castroviejo-Fisher S, Padial JM, De la Riva I, Pombal JP, Da Silva HR, Rojas-Runjaic FJM, Medina-Mendez E, Frost DR. 2015. Phylogenetic systematics of egg-brooding frogs (Anura: Hemiphractidae) and the evolution of direct development. Zootaxa 4004: 1 - 75.
- Lutz A. 1927. Notas sobre batrachios da Venezuela e da Ilha de trinidad. Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz 20: 35 - 65.
- Gines H. 1959. Familias y generos de anfibios Amphibia de Venezuela. Memoria de la Sociedad de Ciencias Naturales La Salle 19: 85 - 146.
- Rohl E. 1959. Fauna Descriptiva de Venezuela (Vertebrados). 4 ta edicion, corregida y aumentada. Nuevas Graficas, Madrid, Espana. 516 p.
- Rivero JA. 1961. Salientia of Venezuela. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 126: 1 - 267.
- Rivero JA. 1964 a. The distribution of Venezuelan frogs IV. The Coastal Range. Caribbean Journal of Science 4: 307 - 317.
- Duellman WE, Maxson LR, Jesiolowsky CA. 1988. Evolution of Marsupial frogs (Hylidae: Hemiphractinae): Immunological evidence. Copeia 1988 (3): 527 - 543.