Allobates mandelorum (Schmidt 1932) *

Holotype: FMNH 17788.

Type locality: “ Camp at altitude of 8,000 feet (2,630 m) on Mount Turumiquire, (Estados Sucre and Monagas), Venezuela.”

Distribution: Region 2. Endemic to Macizo de Turimiquire, a mountain in the Cordillera de la Costa Oriental, between Monagas and Sucre states. Known only from type locality and from Elvecia in Sucre State (La Marca 1993).

Remarks: Despite the taxonomic revision of La Marca (1993), where it was not closely related to Mannophryne or the Colosthetus alboguttatus group (currently Aromobates), its status remains unsolved. It was allocated to Allobates by Grant et al. (2006) without any substantiation. The relationships within Aromobatinae remain unknown and it has not been collected since 1932.

Selected references: Schmidt (1932); Ginés (1959); Rivero (1961, 1982a, 1988); Hardy (1984a); Myers et al. (1991); La Marca (1993); Grant et al. (2006).