Hyalinobatrachium fragile (Rivero 1985) *

Type: UPR-M 5938.

Type locality: “ Mundo Nuevo, entre Manrique y La Sierra, 396 m, Estado Cojedes, Venezuela.”

Distribution: Region 2. Western and central sectors of the Cordillera de la Costa, 100– 1,200 m asl.

Remarks: Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni has been listed as occurring in Venezuela until recently, but is no longer considered part of the Venezuelan herpetofauna. Most of the older records were misidentifications between H. fragile and H. guairarepanense .

Selected references: Rivero (1985); Señaris and Ayarzagüena (2005); Barrio-Amorós (2006c).