Pipa pipa (Linnaeus 1758)

Syntypes: Specimens figured in Seba, 1734 (see http:// linnaeus.nrm.se/zool/herp/madamph.html.en)

Type locality: “ Surinam.”

Distribution: Amazonian Region, in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Venezuela, Trinidad, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana. In Venezuela, widespread in Orinoco Basin, from eastern foothills of the Andes at Barinas State, Llanos of Monagas, Delta Amacuro, Bolívar, and Amazonas.

Selected references: Dunn (1948); Ginés (1958); Röhl (1959); Rivero (1961); Trueb and Cannatella (1986); Péfaur and Díaz De Pascual (1987); La Marca (1992); Gorzula and Señaris (1998).