Vitreorana gorzulae (Ayarzagüena 1992)

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 : 22-23

Vitreorana gorzulae (Ayarzagüena 1992)

Holotype: MHNLS 11221 .

Type locality: “ Cerro Auyantepuy-Centro. Edo. Bolívar. Venezuela. (5°56’N- 62°34’W). 1,850 m snm.”

Distribution: Region 5. Widespread in the Guiana Shield ( Venezuela and Guyana), 430– 1,850 m asl. In Venezuela, known from several localities in the Sierra de Lema, the Gran Sabana, and Auyan-tepui.

Remarks: Duellman and Señaris (2003) place Centrolenella auyantepuiana (Ayarzagüena 1992) (reported as Hyalinobatrachium auyantepuianum by Barrio-Amorós 1998), in synonymy with Centrolene gorzulae based on its trilobate liver and a small humeral spine not reported before in this taxon. Kok and Castroviejo-Fisher (2008) synonymized Centrolene papillahallicum Noonan and Harvey, 2000 with what they called V. gorzulai . Later, using integrative taxonomy, Castroviejo-Fisher et al. (2009) placed Centrolene lema into synonymy with V. gorzulae . Though the name gorzulae is a masculine patronym (honoring Stefan Gorzula) that seems to be correctly emended to gorzulai , this is not the case according to Article 31.1.1 of the Code ( ICZN 1999).

Selected references: Ayarzagüena (1992); Duellman (1997); Gorzula and Señaris (1998); ICZN (1999); Duellman and Señaris (2003); Señaris and Ayarzagüena (2005); Kok and Castroviejo-Fisher (2008); Kok and Kalamandeen (2008); Myers and Donnelly (2008); Barrio-Amorós and Duellman (2009); Castroviejo-Fisher et al. (2009); Guayasamin et al. (2009); Señaris et al. (2014).