Leptodactylus validus Garman, 1888

Lectotype: MCZ A-71920.

Type locality: “Kingston, St. Vincent,” Lesser Antilles.

Distribution: Regions, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Lesser Antilles, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana. Widely distributed in lowland Venezuela, north and south of Orinoco River.

Remarks: Includes all previous references for Leptodactylus podicipinus, L. wagneri, and L. pallidirostris from Venezuela. Synonymy by Yanek et al. (2006). In melanonotus species group of De Sá et al. (2014).

Selected references: Ginés (1959); Rivero (1961, 1963 c, 1964a-d, 1968e); Heatwole et al. (1965); Rivero and Esteves (1969); Bogart (1974); Hoogmoed and Gorzula (1979); Rivero et al. (1986); Donnelly and Myers (1991); Heyer (1994); Gorzula and Señaris (1998); Yanek et al. (2006); Camargo et al. (2009); De Sá et al. (2014).