Synapturanus salseri Pyburn, 1975

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Otophryninae > Genus: Synapturanus > Species: Synapturanus salseri

Synapturanus salseri Pyburn, 1975, Herpetologica, 31: 440. Holotype: UTA A-4011, by original designation. Type locality: "Timbó, Vaupés", Colombia.

English Names

Timbo Disc Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 93).

Distribution

Known with certainty from the type locality (Timbo, Vaupes, Colombia) and surrounding areas; records from Cerro Neblina and two localities in Amazonas, Venezuela, Kaieteur National Park, Guyana, and near Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, refer to other named and unnamed species.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil, Colombia, Guyana, Venezuela

Comment

Barrio-Amorós, 1999 "1998", Acta Biol. Venezuelica, 18: 58, commented on the Venezuelan distribution. Zimmerman, 1983, Herpetologica, 39: 235–246, and Zimmerman and Bogart, 1984, Acta Amazonica, 14: 473–520, reported on vocalization. Señaris, Molina, and Villarreal, 2003, Herpetol. Rev., 34: 260, provided a record for Amazonas, Venezuela. Zimmerman and Rodrigues, 1990, in Gentry (ed.), Four Neotropical Rainforests: 426–454, provided the first central Brazilan Amazonia record for this species, near Manaus. Menin, Rodrigues, and Lima, 2007, J. Herpetol., 17: 86–91, reported on advertisement call and tadpole morphology of Synapturanus cf. salseri from near Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. Kok and Kalamandeen, 2008, Intr. Taxon. Amph. Kaieteur Natl. Park: 232–233, provided an account, reported the species from Kaieteur National Park, Guyana (although noting some differences), and questioned the identity of the Manaus, Brazil, specimens. Señaris, Lampo, Rojas-Runjaic, and Barrio-Amorós, 2014, Guía Ilust. Anf. Parque Nac. Canaima: 232–233, provided a photograph and a brief account for the Parque Nacional de Canaima, Venezuela. See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 105, for comments on range and literature. For identification of larvae in central Amazonia, Brazil, see Hero, 1990, Amazoniana, 11: 201–262, although who Fouquet, Leblanc, Fabre, Rodrigues, Menin, Courtois, Dewynter, Hölting, Ernst, Peloso, and Kok, 2021, Zool. Anz., 293: 46–73, who rediagnosed the species, discussed osteology, external morphology, advertisement call, range, and natural history, implied that all records substantially distant from the type locality are based on misidentifications or unnamed species. 

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