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Leptodactylus pentadactylus

  • 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 pentadactylus (Laurenti 1768)

Neotype: RMNH 29559.

Type locality: “ Suriname, Marowijne, Lelygebergte, Suralcokamp.”

Distribution: Region 4, 5. Widespread in Amazon Region of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana. In Venezuela, in lowland forest south of Orinoco River.

Remarks: Vouchers absent from Venezuelan museums; all pentadactylus -like frogs from southern Venezuela identified as Leptodactylus knudseni. Heyer’s (2005) review of the pentadactylus species group does not mention any voucher from Venezuela. Removed from previous lists by Barrio-Amorós (2009) without explanation. De Sá et al. (2014) show four Venezuelan localities in a distribution map, but without vouchers. In Leptodactylus pentadactylus species group of De Sá et al. (2014). May be distinguished from L. knudseni by absence of chest spines in reproductive males of L. pentadactylus (present in L. knudseni).

Selected references: Rivero (1964b,d, 1969a); Heatwole et al. (1965); Bogart (1974); Muedeking and Heyer (1976); Heyer (1979, 2005); Hero and Galatti (1990); Duellman (1997); Gorzula and Señaris (1998); De Sá 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 95, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11404264

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
RMNH
Material sample ID
RMNH 29559
Scientific name authorship
Laurenti
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Anura
Family
Leptodactylidae
Genus
Leptodactylus
Species
pentadactylus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
neotype
Taxonomic concept label
Leptodactylus pentadactylus (Laurenti, 1768) sec. Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic & Señaris, 2019

References

  • 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. 1964 b. The distribution of Venezuelan frogs V. The Venezuelan Guayana. Caribbean Journal of Science 4: 411 - 420.
  • 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.
  • Bogart JP. 1974. A karyosystematic study of frogs in the genus Leptodactylus (Anura: Leptodactylidae). Copeia 1974 (3): 728 - 737.
  • Muedeking MH, Heyer RW. 1976. Description of eggs and reproductive patterns of Leptodactylus pentadactylus (Amphibia: Leptodactylidae). Herpetologica 32: 137 - 139.
  • Hero JM, Galatti U. 1990. Characteristics distinguishing Leptodactylus pentadactylus and Leptodactylus knudseni in the Central Amazon rainforest. Journal of Herpetology 24: 226 - 228.
  • 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.