Centrolene Jiménez de la Espada, 1872

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

Genus Centrolene Jiménez de la Espada, 1872

Type species: Centrolene geckoideum Jiménez de la Espada, 1872 , by monotypy.

Remarks: The generic name Centrolene is feminine, not neuter as Myers and Donnelly (1997) interpreted. Jimenez de la Espada (1872) described Centrolene without indicating a gender and associated the name with a neuter species name ( geckoideum ) in error. Following the Code it must be corrected (M.A. Alonso de Zarazaga, pers. comm.), as Centrolene is feminine from the Greek nouns (kéntron -sting, spur- and ōlénē -elbow-, thus feminine in Greek), so, the emendations proposed by Myers and Donnelly (1997) require revision. Following Article 30.1.2 of the Code, the species names are amended to feminine when determined to require correction according to the Code ( ICZN 1999). The amended Centrolene follows, as feminine: Centrolene altitudinalis (Rivero 1968) , Centrolene antioquensis (Noble 1920) , Centrolene bacata Wild, 1994 , Centrolene daidalea (Ruíz-Carranza and Lynch 1991) , Centrolene geckoidea Jiménez de la Espada, 1872 , Centrolene gemmata ( Flores 1985), Centrolene hesperia (Cadle and McDiarmid 1990) , Centrolene huilensis Ruíz-Carranza and Lynch, 1995 , Centrolene lemniscata Duellman and Schulte, 1993 , Centrolene notosticta Ruíz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991 , Centrolene peristicta (Lynch and Duellman 1973) , Centrolene pipilata (Lynch and Duellman 1973) , and Centrolene venezuelensis (Rivero 1968) . The species not mentioned remain as previously published.