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Anomaloglossus rufulus (Gorzula, 1990)
Dendrobates rufulus Gorzula, 1990 "1988", Mem. Soc. Cienc. Nat. La Salle, 48: 144. Holotype: MHNLS 10361, by original designation. Type locality: "borde nor-oeste del Amuri-tepui en el Macizo del Chimantá (CHIMANTA XVIII), 05° 22′ —62° 05′ W. 2.600 m, Estado Bolívar, Venezuela".
Epipedobates rufulus — Walls, 1994, Jewels of the Rainforest: 26, 241; Myers, 1997, Acta Terramaris, Caracas, 10: 3.
Allobates rufulus — Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 162.
Anomaloglossus rufulus — Barrio-Amorós and Santos, 2011, Salamandra, 47: 155.
Common Names
Tepui Poison Frog (Walls, 1994, Jewels of the Rainforest: 26).
Chimantá Poison Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 50).
Distribution
Chimantá Massif, Bolívar, Venezuela, 2100 to 2600 m elevation.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Venezuela
Endemic: Venezuela
Comment
Gorzula and Señaris Vasquez, 1999 "1998", Scient. Guaianae, 8: 26, discussed the distribution and placed this species in the Dendrobates femoralis group of Silverstone, which is currently distributed among Ameerega and Allobates. See account by Lötters, Jungfer, Henkel, and Schmidt, 2007, Poison Frogs: 312–313. Barrio-Amorós and Santos, 2009, Phyllomedusa, 8: 92, suggested that this species is not a member of Allobates, but did not suggest an alternative generic assignment. Barrio-Amorós and Santos, 2011, Salamandra, 47: 155–160, allocated the species to Anomaloglossus and rediagnosed the species based on additional material. Señaris Vasquez, Lampo, Rojas-Runjaic, and Barrio-Amorós, 2014, Guía Ilust. Anf. Parque Nac. Canaima: 118–119, provided a photograph and a brief account for the Parque Nacional de Canaima, Venezuela. See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris Vasquez, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 37–38, for comments on range, taxonomy, and morphology. Señaris Vasquez 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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