Anomaloglossus murisipanensis (La Marca, 1997)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Dendrobatoidea > Family: Aromobatidae > Subfamily: Anomaloglossinae > Genus: Anomaloglossus > Species: Anomaloglossus murisipanensis

Colostethus murisipanensis La Marca, 1997 "1996", Publ. Asoc. Amigos Doñana, 9: 22. Holotype: MHNLS 11385, by original designation. Type locality: "Murisipan-Tepui (05° 53′ N y 62° 04′ W), Estado Bolívar", Venezuela.

Anomaloglossus murisipanensisGrant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 158.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Known only from the type locality (Murisipan-Tepui, Estado Bolívar, Venezuela, 2350 m elevation).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Venezuela

Endemic: Venezuela

Comment

See comments on color in life by Gorzula and Señaris, 1999 "1998", Scient. Guaianae, 8: 23. Barrio-Amorós, 2004, Rev. Ecol. Lat. Am., 9: 8, reported on distribution and relevant literature. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Colostethus murisipanensis) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 224. Señaris, Lampo, Rojas-Runjaic, and Barrio-Amorós, 2014, Guía Ilust. Anf. Parque Nac. Canaima: 110–111, provided a brief account for the Parque Nacional de Canaima, Venezuela. See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 37, for comments on range 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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