Boana boans (Linnaeus 1758)

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 : 63

Boana boans (Linnaeus 1758)

Lectotype: ZIUU 27 ; designated by implication (Mertens 1940).

Type locality: “America.”

Distribution: Regions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Widely distributed in northern South America, in the Darien and Chocó Regions, and Magdalena, Orinoco, and Amazon Basins ( Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Brazil, Guianas, and Trinidad). Common riparian element in the lowlands of southern Venezuela (Amazonas, Bolívar, and Delta Amacuro to as far north as Península de Paria). Also, in the eastern piedmont of the Venezuelan Andes (Barinas and Táchira).

Remarks: The Andean piedmont population (Barrio-Amorós 1999g, 2001a) is continuous from the eastern versant of the Cordillera Oriental de Colombia and thus from the Upper Amazon, fitting the Amazonian distribution pattern for western Venezuela suggested by Barrio-Amorós (1998). However, the Barinas and Táchira populations are much smaller and with a different pattern from those from the south of the Orinoco. Chacón-Ortiz et al. (2005) probably confused by such difference, reported B. rosenbergi , a Central American and Chocoan species, from Táchira State, and the same specimens mentioned by Chacón-Ortiz et al. (2005) were previously reported correctly as B. boans (Barrio-Amorós 1999, 2001a). Specimens from throughout the whole species distribution should be compared using molecular and bioacoustic data, as they may be a species complex. In the Boana semilineata species group ( Faivovich et al. 2005). Some specimens are still confused in collections with the very similar B. wavrini ( Hoogmoed 1990b) .

Selected references: Ginés (1959); Rivero (1961, 1964b, 1967a); Heatwole et al. (1965); Duellman (1971a, 1997); Gremone et al. (1986); Hoogmoed (1990b); Donnelly and Myers (1991); Magdefrau et al. (1991); Gorzula and Señaris (1998); Barrio-Amorós (1999, 2001a); Arrington and Arrington (2000); Lynch and Suárez-Mayorga (2001); Chacón et al. (2005); Barrio-Amorós and Brewer-Carías (2008); Barrio-Amorós et al. (2011b); Mendoza (2014); Señaris et al. (2014).