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Leptodactylus guianensis Heyer and de Sa 2011

  • 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 guianensis Heyer and de Sá, 2011

Holotype: USNM 531509.

Type locality: “ Guyana; Rupunini, Iwokrama Forest Reserve, Sipuruni River, Pakatau Camp, 4°45’17’’N, 59°01’28’’W, 85 m. ”

Distribution: Region 5. Lowlands and uplands of Guiana Shield in Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and Brazil. In Venezuela, only from eastern Bolívar State.

Remarks: Records from eastern part of Venezuelan Guayana previously assigned to Leptodactylus bolivianus are actually L. guianensis (e.g., Barrio-Amorós et al. (2011b) from Triunfo). In Leptodactylus latrans species group of De Sá et al. (2014).

Selected references: Rivero et al. (1986); 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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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
USNM
Material sample ID
USNM 531509
Scientific name authorship
Heyer and de Sa
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Anura
Family
Leptodactylidae
Genus
Leptodactylus
Species
guianensis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Leptodactylus guianensis de, 2011 sec. Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic & Señaris, 2019

References

  • Heyer WR, de Sa RO. 2011. Variation, systematics, and relationships of the Leptodactylus bolivianus complex (Amphibia: Anura: Leptodactylidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 35: 1 - 58.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Rivero JA, Langone JA, Prigioni CM. 1986. Anfibios anuros colectados por la expedicion del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Montevideo al rio Caura, estado Bolivar, Venezuela; con la descripcion de una nueva especie de Colostethus (Dendrobatidae). Comunicaciones Zoologicas del Museo de Historia Natural de Montevideo 11: 1 - 15.
  • 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.