Hyloscirtus jahni ( Rivero 1961 )

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 : 69-70

Hyloscirtus jahni ( Rivero 1961) *

Holotype: UMMZ 46465 .

Type locality: El Escorial, Mérida State, Venezuela .

Distribution: Endemic of cloud forest of Cordillera de Mérida (Andes), Mérida State .

Remarks: Formerly in Hyloscirtus bogotensis species group ( Faivovich et al. 2005). Recently, Rojas-Runjaic et al. (2018) recovered this species in his molecular phylogeny as sister to all other Hyloscirtus . To promote taxonomic stability and maintain taxonomy based on monophyletic groups, they excluded H. jahni from the H. bogotensis species group and created the monospecific H. jahni species group, which is morphologically defined by the presence of dermal spicules in adult males, and by the high number of tooth rows in the larval oral disc.

Selected references: Rivero (1961, 1963b); La Marca (1985a, 1994); Duellman (1989a).