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Boana roraima
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
Boana roraima (Duellman and Hoogmoed 1992)
Holotype: BMNH 1979.560
Type locality: “ North slope of Mt. Roraima (05°38′N, 60°44′W, elevation 1,480 m), Rupununi District, Guyana.”
Distribution: Region 5. Guyana and Venezuela. In Venezuela, restricted to the Eastern half of Bolívar State (Barrio-Amorós et al. 2011).
Remarks: See variation from Guyana in MacCulloch and Lathrop (2005). Barrio-Amorós et al. (2011) officially reported the species from Venezuela, described the call, and commented on distribution. Myers and Donnelly (2008) described Hypsiboas angelicus from the summit of Auyan-tepui. Barrio-Amorós et al. (2011) stated that H. angelicus is a junior synonym of B. roraima. In Boana benitezi species group (Faivovich et al. 2005).
Selected references: Duellman and Hoogmoed (1992); MacCulloch and Lathrop (2005); Myers and Donnelly (2008); Barrio-Amorós and Duellman (2009); Barrio-Amorós et al. (2011c); Barrio-Amorós and Fuentes (2012); 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 pages 66-67, 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)
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- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/4608879FFFEFFFDC6E0BFCC4FBF3F8CD (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/232129249 (URL)
- https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/298067/taxon/4608879FFFEFFFDC6E0BFCC4FBF3F8CD.taxon (URL)
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- BMNH
- Material sample ID
- BMNH 1979
- Scientific name authorship
- Duellman and Hoogmoed
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Anura
- Family
- Hylidae
- Genus
- Boana
- Species
- roraima
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Boana roraima (and, 1992) sec. Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic & Señaris, 2019
References
- Duellman WE, Hoogmoed MS. 1992. Some hylid frogs from the Guiana highlands, northeastern south America: new species, distributional records, and a generic reallocation. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas 147: 1 - 21.
- Myers CW, Donnelly MA. 2008. The summit herpetofauna of Auyantepui, Venezuela: report from the Robert G. Goelet American Museum-Terramar expedition. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 308: 1 - 147.
- Faivovich J, Haddad CFB, Garcia PCA, Frost DR, Campbell JA, Wheeler WC. 2005. Systematic review of the frog family Hylidae, with special reference to Hylinae: phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 294: 1 - 240.
- Barrio-Amoros CL, Duellman WE. 2009. Herpetofauna de la Sierra de Lema, estado Bolivar, Venezuela. Pp. 137 - 155. In: Evaluacion Rapida de la Biodiversidad de los Ecosistemas Acuaticos de la Cuenca Alta del Rio Cuyuni, Guayana Venezolana. Editors, Lasso CA, Senaris JC, Rial A, Flores AL. RAP Bulletin of Biological Assesment 55. Conservation International, Arlington, Virginia, USA. 235 p.
- Barrio-Amoros CL, Senaris JC, MacCulloch RD, Lathrop A, Guayasamin JM, Duellman WE. 2011 c. Distribution, vocalization and taxonomic status of Hypsiboas roraima and H. angelicus (Amphibia: Anura: Hylidae). Papeis Avulsos de Zoologia 51: 21 - 28.
- Barrio-Amoros CL, Fuentes O. 2012. The herpetofauna of the Lost World. Pp. 140 - 151 In: Venezuelan Tepuis, their Caves and Biota. Editors, Aubrecht R, Barrio-Amoros CL, Breure ASH, Brewer-Carias C, Derka T, Fuentes-Ramos OA, Gregor M, Kodada J, Kovacik L, Lanczos T, Lee NM. Acta Geologica Slovaca Monograph, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovak Republic. 168 p.
- 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.