Bolitoglossa borburata Trapido, 1942

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 : 131

Bolitoglossa borburata Trapido, 1942 *

Holotype: USNM 115509 .

Type locality: “ Valle del Río Borburata, Estado Carabobo, Venezuela, 1,200 m.”

Distribution: Region 2. Endemic from Venezuela. Restricted to Cordillera de la Costa (Carabobo, Aragua, and Yaracuy States).

Remarks: Probably a complex of species; specimens from Yaracuy assigned tentatively to Bolitoglossa borburata by Barrio and Fuentes (1999b) can represent a different taxon. Unfortunately, seems to have vanished, at least from central Cordillera de la Costa. In Bolitoglossa adspersa species group of Parra-Olea et al. (2004).

Selected references: Trapido (1942); Röhl (1959); Brame and Wake (1963); Hanken and Wake (1982); Manzanilla et al. (1995); Rodríguez and Rojas-Suárez (1995); Barrio (1999a); Barrio and Fuentes (1999b); Barrio-Amorós (2006c).