Boana sp.

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 : 169

Boana sp. (cf. rufitela)

Distribution: A few localities along the Caribbean coastal range and Maracaibo Lake basin, also scattered in Caribbean Colombia. Those localities are widespread in the literature but there is no mention of a viable population.

Remarks: In all previous lists of Venezuelan amphibians this species was confused with H. albomarginatus , a species found in southeastern Brazil. Barrio-Amorós (2004) identified Venezuelan populations as H. rufitelus , apparently the closest similar congeneric, known from Nicaragua through southern Central America to northern Colombia. Only one specimen collected in Maracaibo, Zulia, Venezuela (MCZ 15369; Fig. 185) looks very much like H. albomarginatus ; all other citations are based on misidentifications of juvenile H. crepitans or H. pugnax , both in Venezuela and Colombia. Here it is concluded that: 1- the specimen MCZ 15369 from a site in Brazil was mislabeled and corresponds with H. albomarginatus , or 2- there is an unidentified species (not albomarginatus or rufitelus ) to be collected and described in Caribbean Venezuela and Colombia.

Selected references: The following references are about either H. rufitelus or H. albomarginatus : Barrio-Amorós 2004, 2013; Fouquette 1968; Ginés 1959; Lutz 1927; Mendoza 2014; Rivero 1961; Spix 1824; Tello 1968.