Otophryne robusta Boulenger, 1900

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 : 104

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.11404264

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11405798

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scientific name

Otophryne robusta Boulenger, 1900
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Otophryne robusta Boulenger, 1900 View in CoL

Type: BMNH 1899.3.25. 18.

Type locality: “Foot on Mt. Roraima , 3,500 ft,” Guyana .

Distribution: Region 5. Gran Sabana, Bolívar State, in eastern Venezuela, as well as Western Guyana.

Remarks: Boulenger (1900) stated specimens he described from Roraima collected by Quelch and Macconnell, were implicitly from Guyana. See further comments on same type locality under accounts of Oreophrynella macconnelli and Pristimantis marmoratus . Could be in Venezuela, according to Kok et al. (2018).

Selected references: Boulenger (1900); Carvalho (1954); Ginés (1959); Rivero (1961, 1964b, 1967a,b); Nelson (1971); Bogart et al. (1976); Gorzula (1985b, 1992); Gremone et al. (1986); Wassersug and Pyburn (1987); Campbell and Clarke (1998); Gorzula and Señaris (1998); MacCulloch et al. (2008); Cole et al. (2013); Señaris et al. (2014).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Amphibia

Order

Anura

Family

Microhylidae

Genus

Otophryne

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