Phyllomedusa trinitatis Mertens, 1926

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 : 107

Phyllomedusa trinitatis Mertens, 1926

Holotype: SMF 2633 .

Type locality: “ Port of Spain,” Trinidad.

Distribution: Region 2. Trinidad and Venezuela. In Venezuela, distributed across north of the country, to the east of Falcón State. Not known from Los Llanos.

Remarks: Barrio-Amorós (2009b) compared those populations called Phyllomedusa tarsius from the Venezuelan Guayana (reported by Duellman and Trueb 1986) with P. trinitatis , and found no significant morphological differences. Thus, the Guianan populations are referred as P. trinitatis (see contrary view in Señaris et al. 2014), pending more investigation of the Andean piedmont populations named tarsius . Recently reported P. tarsius from Guyana ( Forlani et al. 2012) must be compared to P. trinitatis . See comments under P. neildi and P. tarsius . See list of localities and distribution map in Barrio-Amorós (2009b).

Selected references: Mertens (1926); Funkhouser (1957, 1962); Ginés (1959); Rivero (1961, 1964a, 1969c); Heatwole et al. (1965); Kenny (1966, 1969); Duellman (1968, 1974b); Tello (1968); Mijares-Urrútia and Arends (1993); Manzanilla et al. (1995); Barrio-Amorós (2006b,c, 2009b); Faivovich et al. (2010); Forlani et al. (2012); Señaris et al. (2014).