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Leptodactylus fuscus
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
Leptodactylus fuscus (Schneider 1799)
Neotype: MNHNP 680.
Type locality: Not designated. Neotype from “ Surinam.”
Distribution: Regions 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Widespread in lowlands from Panama through South America to east of Andes (Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, and northern extreme of Argentina). In Venezuela, widely distributed in lowlands throughout country, including Margarita Island.
Remarks: A complex of species. In Leptodactylus fuscus species group of De Sá et al. (2014).
Selected references: Ginés (1959); Rivero (1964a-d, 1967a); Heatwole et al. (1965); Tello (1968); Bogart (1974); Staton and Dixon (1977); Hoogmoed and Gorzula (1979); Péfaur and Díaz De Pascual (1987); Solano (1987a,b); Ramo and Busto (1989, 1990); Magdefrau et al. (1991); Manzanilla et al. (1995); Duellman (1997); Gorzula and Señaris (1998); Barrio-Amorós (2010a); Tárano (2010); Ugueto and Rivas-Fuenmayor (2010); Barrio-Amorós et al. (2011b); De Sá et al. (2014); 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 91, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11404264
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- 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/4608879FFFF0FFC46DDFF891FEAFFABA (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/232129378 (URL)
- https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/298067/taxon/4608879FFFF0FFC46DDFF891FEAFFABA.taxon (URL)
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- MNHNP
- Material sample ID
- MNHNP 680
- Scientific name authorship
- Schneider
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Anura
- Family
- Leptodactylidae
- Genus
- Leptodactylus
- Species
- fuscus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- neotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Leptodactylus fuscus (Schneider, 1799) sec. Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic & Señaris, 2019
References
- Schneider JG. 1799. Historiae Amphibiorum Naturalis et Literarie. Jena, Germany. 264 pp.
- De Sa RO, Grant T, Camargo A, Heyer WR, Ponssa ML, Stanley E. 2014. Systematics of the Neotropical genus Leptodactylus Fitzinger, 1826 (Anura: Leptodactylidae): Phylogeny, the relevance of nonmolecular evidence, and species accounts. South American Journal of Herpetology 9: 1 - 128.
- Gines H. 1959. Familias y generos de anfibios Amphibia de Venezuela. Memoria de la Sociedad de Ciencias Naturales La Salle 19: 85 - 146.
- Heatwole H, Solano H, Heatwole A. 1965. Notes on amphibians from the Venezuelan Guayanas with description of two new forms. Acta Biologica Venezuelica 4: 349 - 364.
- Tello J. 1968. Clase Amphibia. Pp. 246 - 247. In: Historia Natural de Caracas. Ediciones del Concejo Municipal del Distrito Federal, Caracas, Miranda, Venezuela. 323 p.
- Bogart JP. 1974. A karyosystematic study of frogs in the genus Leptodactylus (Anura: Leptodactylidae). Copeia 1974 (3): 728 - 737.
- Staton MA, Dixon JR. 1977. The herpetofauna of the central Llanos of Venezuela: noteworthy records, a tentative checklist and ecological notes. Journal of Herpetology 11: 17 - 24.
- Hoogmoed MS, Gorzula S. 1979. Checklist of the savanna inhabiting frogs of the El Manteco region with notes on their ecology and the description of a new species of tree frog (Hylidae, Anura). Zoologische Mededelingen 54: 183 - 216.
- Pefaur JE, Diaz de Pascual A. 1987. Distribucion ecologica y variacion temporal de los anfibios del estado Barinas, Venezuela. Revista de Ecologia Latinoamericana 1: 9 - 19.
- Solano H. 1987 a. Algunos aspectos de la biologia reproductiva del sapito silbador Leptodactylus fuscus (Schneider) (Amphibia: Leptodactylidae). Amphibia-Reptilia 8: 111 - 128.
- Ramo C, Busto B. 1989 - 1990. Inventario herpetologico (anfibios y reptiles) de las sabanas inundables del modulo Fernando Corrales (Mantecal), estado Apure. Memoria de la Sociedad de Ciencias Naturales La Salle 49 - 50: 287 - 308.
- Magdefrau H, Magdefrau K, Schluter A. 1991. Herpetologische Daten vom Guaiquinima-Tepui, Venezuela. Herpetofauna 13: 13 - 26.
- Manzanilla J, Fernandez-Badillo A, La Marca E, Visbal R. 1995. Fauna del Parque Nacional Henri Pittier, Venezuela: composicion y distribucion de los anfibios. Acta Cientifica Venezolana 46: 294 - 302.
- Duellman WE. 1997. Amphibians of La Escalera region, Southeastern Venezuela: taxonomy, ecology and biogeography. Scientific Papers of the Natural History Museum, University of Kansas 2: 1 - 52.
- Gorzula S, Senaris JC. 1998. Contribution to the herpetofauna of the Venezuelan Guayana. I. A data base. Scientia Guaianae 8: 1 - 267.
- Tarano Z. 2010. Advertisement calls and calling habits of frogs from a flooded savanna of Venezuela. South American Journal of Herpetology 5: 221 - 240.
- Barrio-Amoros CL, Brewer-Carias C, Fuentes O. 2011 b. Aproximacion preliminar a la herpetocenosis de un bosque pluvial en la seccion occidental de la Sierra de Lema, Guayana Venezolana. Revista de Ecologia Latinoamericana 16: 1 - 46.
- 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.