Ceuthomantis aracamuni (Barrio-Amorós and Molina, 2006)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Brachycephaloidea > Family: Ceuthomantidae > Genus: Ceuthomantis > Species: Ceuthomantis aracamuni

Eleutherodactylus aracamuni Barrio-Amorós and Molina, 2006, Zootaxa, 1302: 3. Holotype: MHNLS 17042, by original designation. Type locality: "summit of Cerro Aracamuni (01° 28′ 36″ N; 65° 50′ 07″ W), 1493 m, Estado Amazonas, Venezuela".

Pristimantis aracamuniHeinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2; Myers and Donnelly, 2008, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 308: 147.

Pristimantis (Pristimantis) aracamuniHedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 128.

Ceuthomantis aracamuniHeinicke, Duellman, Trueb, Means, MacCulloch, and Hedges, 2009, Zootaxa, 2211: 16.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Known only from the summit of Cerro Aracamuni, a granitic mountain associated with the Neblina massif, southern Amazonas, Venezuela, 1493 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Venezuela

Endemic: Venezuela

Comment

Appears to be closely related to Eleutherodactylus cavernibardus according to the original publication. Formerly in the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) unistrigatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 128, prior to its transfer to Ceuthomantidae by Heinicke, Duellman, Trueb, Means, MacCulloch, and Hedges, 2009, Zootaxa, 2211: 16. See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 31, for comments on range, taxonomy, and literature. Señaris and Rojas-Runjaic, 2020, in Rull and Carnaval (eds.), Neotrop. Divers. Patterns Process.: 571–632, commented on range and conservation status in the Venezuelan Guayana.

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