Allobates caribe (Barrio-Amorós, Rivas-Fuenmayor, and Kaiser, 2006)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Dendrobatoidea > Family: Aromobatidae > Subfamily: Allobatinae > Genus: Allobates > Species: Allobates caribe

Colostethus caribe Barrio-Amorós, Rivas-Fuenmayor, and Kaiser, 2006, J. Herpetol., 40: 372. Holotype: MHNLS 17462, by original designation. Type locality: "southern slope of Cerro El Humo, Península de Paria, Estado Sucre, Venezuela (10° 41′ 094 N, 62° 37′ 147 W . . .), elevation 1050 m".

Allobates caribeFrost, 2007, Amph. Spec. World, vers. 5.0; new combination by implication of results provided by Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 1-262.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Known only from the type locality (cloud forest on the southern slope of Cerro El Humo, Península de Paria, Estado Sucre, Venezuela).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Venezuela

Endemic: Venezuela

Comment

 See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 33, for comments on range, taxonomy, and literature.

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