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Leptodactylus sabanensis Heyer 1994

  • 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 sabanensis Heyer, 1994 *

Holotype: KU 166559.

Type locality: “ Venezuela; Bolívar; km 127, El Dorado-Santa Elena de Uairen road, 1,250 m, 6°00’N, 61°30’W.”

Distribution: Region 5. Gran Sabana in eastern Venezuela and adjacent Lavrado in Roraima, Brazil.

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

Selected references: Heyer (1994); Duellman (1997); Gorzula and Señaris (1998); 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 97, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11404264

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
KU
Material sample ID
KU 166559
Scientific name authorship
Heyer
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Anura
Family
Leptodactylidae
Genus
Leptodactylus
Species
sabanensis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Leptodactylus sabanensis Heyer, 1994 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.