Stefania breweri Barrio-Amorós and Fuentes, 2003

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 : 57

publication ID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11405396

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4608879F-FF96-FFA2-6D96-FFD1FC7BFE39

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scientific name

Stefania breweri Barrio-Amorós and Fuentes, 2003
status

 

Stefania breweri Barrio-Amorós and Fuentes, 2003 View in CoL *

Holotype: MBUCV 6574 View Materials .

Type locality: “ Summit of Cerro Autana (Wahari Kuaway), near the north ridge (4°52’N, 67°27’W), 1,250 m elevation, Municipio Atures, Estado Amazonas, Venezuela.” GoogleMaps

Distribution: Region 5. Endemic to Autana, a tepui in Estado Amazonas.

Remarks: Not seen during two expeditions to the top of Autana after the collection of the only known specimen in 1971. Autana has an extremely small surface of 1. 9 km 2, so this is one of the most geographically restricted frog species in the world. However, it is only DD by IUCN (Stuart 2006) and Rodríguez and Rojas-Suárez (2008) keep it under IUCN category VU/D2; it is not even mentioned in the last edition of the Venezuelan Red Book ( Rodriguez et al. 2015). We argue that the species (known from a single specimen, not seen during two expeditions with herpetologists in 1972 and 2001, and restricted to an area of 1. 9 km 2) should be classified CR B2a.

Selected references: Barrio-Amorós and Fuentes (2003); Stuart (2006); Rodríguez and Rojas-Suárez (2008); Barrio-Amorós and Torres (2010); Barrio-Amorós (2013).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Amphibia

Order

Anura

Family

Hemiphractidae

Genus

Stefania

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