Pleurodema brachyops (Cope 1869)

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 : 99-100

Pleurodema brachyops (Cope 1869)

Syntypes: ANSP 2260–2264 .

Type locality: “Magdalene River, New Grenada” (= Colombia).

Distribution: Regions 2, 3, 6. From Panama in Central America through northern Colombia, Venezuela, and Guyana to northern Brazil, plus Margarita Island and the Netherlands Antilles ( Curaçao, Aruba, and Bonaire). In Venezuela, widespread in lowlands north of Orinoco River, northern Amazonas State, and eastern Bolívar State south of Orinoco.

Selected references: Lutz (1927); Ginés (1959); Rivero (1961, 1963a,c, 1964b,d, 1969a); Roze (1964); Tello (1968); León-Ochoa and Donoso-Barros (1970); Duellman and Veloso (1977); Staton and Dixon (1977); Hoogmoed and Gorzula (1979); Ramo and Busto (1989, 1990); Barrio (1996a); Yústiz (1996); Gorzula and Señaris (1998); Molina (2004 “2002”); Tárano (2010); Ugueto and Rivas Fuenmayor (2010); Faivovich et al. (2012).