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Pristimantis yuruaniensis Rodder and Jungfer 2008

  • 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

Pristimantis yuruaniensis Rödder and Jungfer, 2008 *

Holotype: ZFMK 87278.

Type locality: Yuruaní-tepui, Gran Sabana Municipality, Bolívar State, Venezuela (5°19’31”N, 60°50’40”W; elevation 2,300 m.

Distribution: Region 5. Restricted to summit of Yuruaní, a tepui in southeastern Bolívar State.

Remarks: Considered Vulnerable (VU) according to Venezuelan Red Book (Señaris and Rojas-Runjaic 2015b). Not assigned to any species group by Padial et al. (2014) or Rödder and Jungfer (2008), but considered in “ unistrigatus ” species group by Kok et al. (2018).

Selected references: Rödder and Jungfer (2008); Señaris et al. (2014); Señaris and Rojas-Runjaic (2015b).

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 129, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11404264

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
ZFMK
Material sample ID
ZFMK 87278
Scientific name authorship
Rodder and Jungfer
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Anura
Family
Craugastoridae
Genus
Pristimantis
Species
yuruaniensis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Pristimantis yuruaniensis and, 2008 sec. Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic & Señaris, 2019

References

  • Rodder D, Jungfer KH. 2008. A new Pristimantis (Anura, Strabomantidae) from Yuruani-tepui, Venezuela. Zootaxa 1814: 58 - 68.
  • Padial JM, Grant T, Frost D. 2014. Molecular systematics of terraranas (Anura; Brachycephaloidea) with an assessment of the effects of alignment and optimality criteria. Zootaxa 3825: 1 - 132.
  • Kok PJR, Dezfoulian R, Means DB, Fouquet A, Barrio-Amoros CB. 2018. Amended diagnosis and redescription of Pristimantis marmoratus (Boulenger, 1900) (Amphibia: Craugastoridae), with a description of its advertisement call and notes on its breeding ecology and phylogenetic relationships. European Journal of Taxonomy 397: 1 - 30.
  • 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.