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Leptodactylus poecilochilus

  • 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 poecilochilus (Cope 1862)

Syntype: USNM 4347.

Type locality: “Near Turbo,” Antioquía, Colombia.

Distribution: Regions 2, 3, 6. From Pacific lowlands of northwestern Costa Rica through Panama and northern Colombia to northwestern Venezuela.

Remarks: In Leptodactylus fuscus species group of De Sá et al. (2014).

Selected references: Rivero (1961, 1963a,c, 1964a, 1971a); Rivero and Esteves (1969); Heyer (1978); La Marca (1992); Yústiz (1996); 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
USNM
Material sample ID
USNM 4347
Scientific name authorship
Cope
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Anura
Family
Leptodactylidae
Genus
Leptodactylus
Species
poecilochilus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
syntype
Taxonomic concept label
Leptodactylus poecilochilus (Cope, 1862) 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. 1961. Salientia of Venezuela. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 126: 1 - 267.
  • Rivero JA. 1963 a. The distribution of Venezuelan frogs I. The Maracaibo basin. Caribbean Journal of Science 3: 7 - 13.
  • Rivero JA, Esteves AE. 1969. Observations on the agonistic and breeding behavior of Leptodactylus pentadactylus and other amphibian species in Venezuela. Breviora 321: 1 - 14.
  • Heyer WR. 1978. Systematics of the fuscus group of the frog genus Leptodactylus (Amphibia: Leptodactylidae). Natural History Museum Los Angeles County Science Bulletin 29: 1 - 85.
  • La Marca E. 1992. Catalogo Taxonomico, Biogeografico y Bibliografico de las Ranas de Venezuela. Cuadernos Geograficos ULA 9. Universidad de Los Andes, Merida, Merida, Venezuela. 197 p.
  • Yustiz E. 1996. Aspectos biogeograficos de la herpetofauna de la cuenca hidrografica del rio Turbio (Estado Lara, Venezuela). Pp. 317 - 349. In: Herpetologia Neotropical. Actas del II Congreso Latinoamericano de Herpetologia. Editor, Pefaur JE. Publicaciones ULA, CSH, Merida, Merida, Venezuela. 451 p.