Allobates bromelicola ( Test 1956 )

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 : 33

Allobates bromelicola ( Test 1956) *

Holotype: UMMZ 113027 .

Type locality: “ 1,375 m on Pico Periquito , Rancho Grande, Estado Aragua, Venezuela.”

Distribution: Region 2. Surroundings of the type locality, 1,310 –1,375 m asl.

Remarks: Nothing is known of this species beyond the original description and some natural history notes by Dixon and Rivero Blanco (1985). It appears to be quite rare, difficult to observe and collect, or it may have suffered a severe decline.

Selected references: Test (1956); Ginés (1959); Rivero (1961, 1964a, 1988); Dixon and Rivero Blanco (1985); Myers et al. (1991); Manzanilla et al. (1995); La Marca and Mijares-Urrútia (1997); Barrio and Fuentes (1999a); Barrio-Amorós (2006c).