Osteocephalus aff. taurinus (McDiarmid and Paolillo, 1988)

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 : 169

Osteocephalus aff. taurinus [Ca2_Neblina410]

Referred specimen: AMNH A-131245.

Distribution: Only known from the base of Cerro de la Neblina (Base Camp, Rio Baria, Amazonas state) at the southern border of Venezuela. Probably more extensive through southern Venezuela and northern Brazil.

Remarks: Jungfer et al. (2013) discovered this species from a single specimen (AMNH A-131245). In the phylogeny of Osteocephalus inferred by these authors it is recovered as sister to a clade integrated by O. oophagus , O. taurinus , and three other undescribed species, and is not clustered with any terminal of O. taurinus sensu stricto. They refer it as a confirmed candidate species [Ca2_Neblina410] related to O. taurinus . In the Osteocephalus taurinus species group (Jungfer et al. 2013). Description of this new species is pending. Other specimens collected during the 1983–1987 expedition to Neblina and deposited in AMNH, USNM and MBUCV as O. taurinus (McDiarmid and Paolillo 1988) probably correspond to this new taxon.

References: McDiarmid and Paolillo 1988; Jungfer et al. 2013.