Ctenophryne geayi Mocquard, 1904

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 : 102

Ctenophryne geayi Mocquard, 1904

Holotype: MNHNP 1903 .84.

Type locality: “La rivière Sarare en Colombie.”

Distribution: Region 4. Northern South America, to east of Andes, in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Venezuela, Guyana, and Suriname. In Venezuela, two localities in eastern Venezuela: km 13 Cuyuni, Bolívar State ( Duellman 1997), and Sierra de Imataca, Delta Amacuro State (MHNLS 20230, reported herein).

Remarks: The type locality is “Riviere Sarare en Colombie ” (= Sarare River, Colombia). This river is born in eastern side of Cordillera Oriental de Colombia and flows through cloud forest and foothill rainforest with Amazonian elements to Los Llanos Region. Though Mocquard did not establish exact locality, current authors estimate it must be in immediate forested foothills of the Andes, where many Amazonian elements are known, both in Colombia and Venezuela. However, it is strange that no additional specimens have been reported from that area in Venezuela and Colombia (in Colombia mostly because of public order problems in the upper Llanos). Lynch (2006) mentions its occurrence from Villavicencio area in Colombia, but without voucher specimens.

Selected references: Carvalho (1954); Zweifel and Myers (1989); Duellman (1997); Lynch (2006).