Aromobates haydeeae (Rivero, 1978)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Dendrobatoidea > Family: Aromobatidae > Subfamily: Aromobatinae > Genus: Aromobates > Species: Aromobates haydeeae

Colostethus haydeeae Rivero, 1978 "1976", Mem. Soc. Cienc. Nat. La Salle, 35: 334. Holotype: UPRM 4706, by original designation. Type locality: "El Vivero, entre Páramo El Zumbador y Mesa del Aura, 2570 m, Edo. Táchira, Venezuela".

Nephelobates haydeeaeLa Marca, 1994, Inst. Geograf. Fac. Cienc. Forestal., Univ. Los Andes, An. Invest., 1991: 40.

Aromobates haydeeaeGrant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 160.

English Names

El Vivero Rocket Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 48).

Distribution

Páramo El Zumbador, western Mérida and eastern Táchira and , Venezuela, 1825-2670 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Venezuela

Endemic: Venezuela

Comment

Barrio-Amorós, 2004, Rev. Ecol. Lat. Am., 9: 7, reported on distribution and relevant literature. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Nephelobates haydeeae) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 235. Sánchez, 2013, Zootaxa, 3637: 569–591, provided information on larval morphology. See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 40, for comments on range, taxonomy, and literature. 

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