Gastrotheca ovifera (Lichtenstein and Weinland 1854) *

Holotype: ZMB 3073.

Type locality: Puerto Cabello, Carabobo, Venezuela.

Distribution: Region 2. Cordillera de la Costa in states Aragua, Cojedes, Miranda, Distrito Federal, Carabobo, and Yaracuy, 890– 2,060 m asl.

Remarks: Reported from the Delta of the Orinoco River (MHNLS 2942) by Valera-Leal et al. (2011) without further comment; but current authors believe this is an error as no Gastrotheca specimen has ever been reported from that area. Included in subgenus Opisthodelphys (Duellman 2015) or in Gastrotheca marsupiata species group sensu Castroviejo-Fisher et al. (2015). Despite a 646 man-hour effort, Valera-Leal et al. (2011) failed to locate any surviving population in the Henri Pittier National Park in 2006–2007. Barrio-Amorós (1998) reported it very abundant at Galipán in March 1997, while CBA has heard the species in Cerro Volcán, Caracas, Miranda, as recently as 2009.

Selected references: Lutz (1927); Mertens (1957a,b, 1967); Ginés (1959); Rivero (1961, 1964a,d); Tello (1968); Duellman (1980, 2015); Duellman et al. (1988); La Marca (1995a); Manzanilla et al. (1995); Barrio (1999b); Barrio-Amorós (2001, 2006c, 2013); Schmidt et al. (2002); Manzanilla and Sánchez (2003); Rivas and Barrio-Amorós (2005); Valera-Leal et al. (2011); Castroviejo-Fisher et al. (2015).