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Leptodactylus petersii

  • 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 petersii (Steindachner 1864)

Holotype: Lost; formerly in the NMW.

Type locality: “Marabitanas,” Amazonas, Brazil.

Distribution: Regions 4, 5. Widely distributed in Amazon Region (Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana) south to the Cerrado in central Brazil. Two recent confirmed records for Venezuelain southern part of Amazonas State and eastern border of Bolívar State.

Remarks: In Leptodactylus melanonotus species group sensu De Sá et al. (2014). Sister taxon of L. leptodactyloides. Records of specimens in Venezuelan museum indicates widespread in lowlands of almost all the country, but many specimens could be other species of Leptodactylus melanonotus group; species identification in this group is very challenging. The map in De Sá et al. (2014) is misplaced with that of Leptodactylus pascoensis and only shows two localities in southern Venezuela.

Selected references: Ginés (1959); Rivero (1963 c, 1964a-d, 1971b); Heatwole et al. (1965); Heyer (1994); Duellman (1997); Tárano (2010); 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 95, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11404264

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
NMW
Scientific name authorship
Steindachner
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Anura
Family
Leptodactylidae
Genus
Leptodactylus
Species
petersii
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Leptodactylus petersii (Steindachner, 1864) sec. Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic & Señaris, 2019

References

  • Steindachner F. 1864. Batrachologische Mitteilungen. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 14: 239 - 288.
  • 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.
  • Rivero JA. 1963 c. The distribution of Venezuelan frogs III. The Sierra de Perija and the Falcon Region. Caribbean Journal of Science 3: 197 - 199.
  • Goin C. 1964. Distribution and synonymy of Centrolenella fleishmanni in northern South America. Herpetologica 20: 1 - 8.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Tarano Z. 2010. Advertisement calls and calling habits of frogs from a flooded savanna of Venezuela. South American Journal of Herpetology 5: 221 - 240.
  • 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.