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Bolitoglossa guaramacalensis Schargel, Garcia-Perez and Smith 2002

  • 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

Bolitoglossa guaramacalensis Schargel, García-Pérez and Smith, 2002 *

Holotype: MCNG-A 2121.

Type locality: “ Boconó-Guaramacal road, Quebrada el Pollo (9°13’N, 70°10’W), south slope of the Macizo de Guramacal, 2,400 m, Trujillo, Venezuela.”

Distribution: Region 1. Endemic to Venezuela. Apparently restricted to Guaramacal massif (Trujillo State), in eastern versant of Venezuelan Andes.

Remarks: In Bolitoglossa adspersa species group according to original publication (Schargel et al. 2002) and by Parra-Olea et al. (2004).

Selected references: Schargel et al. (2002).

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 131, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11404264

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References

  • Schargel W, Garcia JE, Smith E. 2002. A new species of Bolitoglossa (Caudata: Plethodontidae) from the Cordillera de Merida, Venezuela. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 115: 534 - 542.
  • Parra-Olea G, Garcia-Paris M, Wake DB. 2004. Molecular diversification of salamanders of the tropical American genus Bolitoglossa (Caudata: Plethodontidae) and its evolutionary and biogeographical implications. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 81: 325 - 346.