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Atelopus barbotini Lescure, 1981
Atelopus spumarius barbotini Lescure, 1981, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Sect. A, Zool., 3: 894. Holotype: MNHNP 1979.1505, by original designation. Type locality: "Saül (Guyane française) ... près de sources de la Mana, au pied des mots Galbao à 10,3 km de Saül (3° 35′ N, 53° 55′ W, alt. 200 m)".
Atelopus barbotini — Lötters, Boistel, Blanc, Haddad, and van der Meijden, 2005, in Rueda-Almonacid et al. (eds.), Ranas Arlequines: XXX.
Common Names
None noted.
Distribution
Uplands of central French Guiana. See comment.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: French Guiana
Endemic: French Guiana
Comment
Noonan and Gaucher, 2005, Mol. Ecol., 14: 3017–3031, provided the evidence for Atelopus barbotini being non-conspecific with Atelopus spumarius, but did not make the taxonomic change because it was not clear to them that this population was not conspecific with some other, unstudied population, of Atelopus. Lescure and Marty, 2000, Collect. Patrimoines Nat., Paris, 45: 48–49, provided a brief account and photo of Atelopus spumarius barbotini. Regarded by Kok, 2000, Brit. Herpetol. Soc. Bull., 71: 6, as a likely synonym of Atelopus flavescens, but he did not make the synonymy.Lötters, van der Meijden, Coloma, Boistel, Cloetens, Ernst, Lehr, and Veith, 2011, Syst. Biodiversity, 9: 54, rejected the conspecificity of Atelopus barbotini and Atelopus spumarius. Lötters, van der Meijden, Coloma, Boistel, Cloetens, Ernst, Lehr, and Veith, 2011, Syst. Biodiversity, 9: 53, and suggested that Atelopus barbotini may be a synonym of Atelopus flavescens. Jorge, Ferrão, and Lima, 2020, Diversity, 12 (310): 7, found this species to be phylogenetically imbedded within Atelopus hoogmoedi, but the implication is that Atelopus hoogmoedi represents a species complex. Taucce, Costa-Campos, Carvalho, and Michalski, 2022, Eur. J. Taxon., 836: 96–130, regarded records of Atelopus barbotini from Amapá, Brazil, as based on misidentifications of Atelopus hoogmoedi. Lescure, Dewynter, Frétey, Ineich, Ohler, Vidal, and De Massary, 2022, Bull. Soc. Herpetol. France, 181(5): 1–17, did not mention this taxon as part of the fauna of French Guiana, implying that they treated it as a synonym of Atelopus flavescens or based on misidentifications of Atelopus hoogmoedi.
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