Flectonotus pygmaeus ( Boettger 1893 )

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 : 53-54

Flectonotus pygmaeus ( Boettger 1893)

Lectotype: SMF 2679 .

Type locality: “Puerto Cabello, Estado Carabobo, Venezuela.”

Distribution: Regions 1, 2. Venezuela and Colombia. In Venezuela, on both sides of the Andes (Cordillera de Mérida) below 1,500 m asl, and Cordillera de la Costa, above 800 m asl.

Remarks: Populations from Cordillera de la Costa and Andes are indistinguishable genetically (D. Blackburn and W.E. Duellman, pers. comm.).

Selected references: Boettger (1893); Lutz (1927); Rivero (1961, 1964a, 1971a); Mertens (1967); Duellman and Maness (1980); Duellman and Gray (1983); Péfaur and Díaz De Pascual (1987); Duellman et al. (1988, 2011); Mijares-Urrútia and Arends (1993); Manzanilla et al. (1995); Yústiz (1996); Rivas and Barrio-Amorós (2005); Barrio-Amorós (2006c, 2010a).