Anomaloglossus rufulus (Gorzula 1990) *

Holotype: MHNLS 10361.

Type locality: “Porción central de Murey Tepui en el Macizo de Chimantá (CHIMANTA XVIII) 05°22’N- 62°05’W. 2,600 m, Estado Bolívar, Venezuela .”

Distribution: Region 5. Endemic to Chimantá, a tepui in Bolívar State.

Remarks: Described originally as Dendrobates rufulus, its the generic allocation changed to Epipedobates (Walsh 1994; Myers 1997) and Allobates (Jungfer and Böhme 2004) until Barrio-Amorós and Santos (2011) allocated it to its current genus based on the presence of an MLP and (unpub.) genetic data.

Selected references: Gorzula (1988, 1992); Walsh (1994); Myers (1997); Barrio and Fuentes (1999a, 2012); Barrio-Amorós (2001c); Barrio-Amorós and Santos (2011); Señaris et al. (2014).