Rhinella sclerocephala ( Mijares-Urrútia and Arends 2001 )

Barrio-Amorós, César L., Rojas-Runjaic, Fernando J. M. & Señaris, J. Celsa, 2019, Catalogue of the amphibians of Venezuela: Illustrated and annotated species list, distribution, and conservation, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 180) 13 (1), pp. 1-198 : 19

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.11404264

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11404971

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4608879F-FFB8-FF8C-6C0B-FE31FD53F9F9

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scientific name

Rhinella sclerocephala ( Mijares-Urrútia and Arends 2001 )
status

 

Rhinella sclerocephala ( Mijares-Urrútia and Arends 2001) View in CoL *

Holotype: EBRG 3415 View Materials .

Type locality: “ 1.5 km (by road) from Curimagua to Cerro Galicia , municipio Petit , Sierra de San Luis, Estado Falcón, Venezuela (about 11°10’N, 69°41’W), about 1,150 m.” GoogleMaps

Distribution: Region 2. Apparently endemic to the cloud forests at Sierra de San Luis, Falcón State. No additional specimens of this species have been collected in the last 25 or so years, according to material preserved in Venezuelan museums. Other than the series by Mijares-Urrútia and Arends (2001) no other specimens are known in the scientific collections examined.

Selected references: Mijares-Urrútia and Arends (2001).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Amphibia

Order

Anura

Family

Bufonidae

Genus

Rhinella

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