Aromobates nocturnus Myers, Paolillo and Daly, 1991 *

Holotype: AMNH 130005.

Type locality: “ Cloud forest at 2,250 m elevation, about 2 km. Airline ESE Agua de Obispos, Estado Trujillo, Venezuela (9°42’N, 70°05’W).”

Distribution: Region 1. Known only from type locality.

Remarks: Apparently highly endangered, not found in type locality since its original discovery. Several parties have failed to find the species (La Marca 2005; Barrio-Amorós et al. 2011). Considered as Critically Endangered (CR) by the current Venezuelan Red Book (La Marca 2015a) but could be extinct.

Selected references: Myers et al. (1991); Barrio and Fuentes (1999a); Barrio-Amorós (2001c, 2013, 2016); Grant et al. (2006); Barrio-Amorós and Santos (2012); La Marca (2015a).