Rhaebo guttatus ( Schneider 1799 )

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 : 13

Rhaebo guttatus ( Schneider 1799)

Holotype: ZMB 3517 .

Type locality: “ India Orientali.” In error; Rivero (1961) clarifies that the label of the holotype states the type specimen was collected in Suriname .

Distribution: Regions 4, 5. Typical Guyano-Amazonian element, present in Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Suriname, French Guiana, Guyana, and Brazil. In Venezuela, widespread in Amazonas and Bolívar States, also occurs in one disjunct area of Apure State ( Barrio et al. 2001).

Remarks: Bufo anderssoni Melin, 1941 was shown to be a junior synonym of Rhaebo guttatus (Barrio-Amorós and Castroviejo-Fisher 2008a) .

Selected references: Ginés (1959); Rivero (1961, 1964b, 1967a); Hoogmoed and Gorzula (1979); Rivero et al. (1986); La Marca (1992); Duellman (1997); Gorzula and Señaris (1998); Barrio et al. (2001, 2011b); Barrio-Amorós and Brewer-Carías (2008); Barrio-Amorós and Castroviejo-Fisher (2008a); Barrio-Amorós and Duellman (2009); Señaris et al. (2014).