Phyllomedusa tarsius
- 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
Phyllomedusa tarsius (Cope 1868)
Holotype: USNM 6652; lost.
Type locality: “Rio Napo, or Upper Amazon, below the mouth of the former” (Loreto, Perú).
Distribution: Regions 1, 3. Widely distributed inAmazon Basin, in southwestern Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, with isolated populations in Cordillera Oriental of Colombia and Venezuela. The Guyanan Phyllomedusa tarsius (Forlani et al. 2012) must be compared with P. trinitatis (see discussion in Barrio-Amorós 2009b). In Venezuela, known only from a few localities in eastern foothills of the Andes. See list of localities and distribution map in Barrio-Amorós (2009b).
Remarks: We really doubt presence of Phyllomedusa tarsius sensu stricto in Venezuela. Previous reports from southeastern Venezuela were meant to be P. trinitatis (Barrio-Amorós 2009b) or are very distinct from P. tarsius sensu stricto, as individuals from the Andean piedmont reported by La Marca (1996) and Markezich (1998) are much smaller and the iris pattern is much less reticulated than on Ecuadorian (near type locality) specimens (Image 229b). This could indicate a putative new species of the tarsius group in western Venezuela.
Selected references: Funkhouser (1957); Duellman (1968, 1974b, 1997); La Marca (1996b); Barrio-Amorós (2006b, 2009b); Señaris et al. (2014).
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- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.11404264 (DOI)
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Biodiversity
- Collection code
- USNM
- Family
- Phyllomedusidae
- Genus
- Phyllomedusa
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- USNM 6652
- Order
- Anura
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Cope
- Species
- tarsius
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Phyllomedusa tarsius (Cope, 1868) sec. Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic & Señaris, 2019
References
- Forlani MC, Bernardo PH, Zaher H. 2012. Amphibia, Anura, Hylidae, Phyllomedusa tarsius Cope, 1868: Distribution extension, new country record and geographic distribution map. Check List 8: 155 - 157.
- Barrio-Amoros CL. 2009 b. Distribucion y aspectos de la historia natural de las ranas lemur (Hylidae: Phyllomedusinae) en Venezuela. Memoria de la Fundacion La Salle de Ciencias Naturales 171: 19 - 46.
- Funkhouser A. 1957. Review of the Neotropical TreeFrogs of the genus Phyllomedusa. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural History of Stanford University 5: 1 - 89.
- La Marca E. 1996 b. Geographic distribution (Anura): Phyllomedusa tarsius. Herpetological Review 27: 149.
- 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.