Mannophryne lamarcai Mijares-Urrutia and Arends-R., 1999

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Dendrobatoidea > Family: Aromobatidae > Subfamily: Aromobatinae > Genus: Mannophryne > Species: Mannophryne lamarcai

Mannophryne lamarcai Mijares-Urrutia and Arends-R., 1999, Herpetologica, 55: 107. Holotype: EBRG 3281, by original designation. Type locality: "Cerro Socopo 30.0 km (by road) SW from Guajiro, Municipio Mauroa, Estado Falcón, Venezula (10° 2′ N, 70° 48′ W), 1250 m".

Common Names

None noted.

Distribution

Serranía de Ziruma, between the northern limit of the Venezuelan Andes and the western limit of the Cordillera de la Costa, states of Falcón and Zulia, northwestern Venezuela, 1040–1460 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Venezuela

Endemic: Venezuela

Comment

See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 233. Rojas-Runjaic, Matta-Pereira, and La Marca, 2018, Zootaxa, 4461: 451–476, distinguished the species and refined the range. Moran, Cardozo-Urdaneta, and Sánchez-Mercado, 2016, Cuad. Herpetol., 30: 79–80, detailed the geographic and elevational range. See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 46, for comments on range and literature.

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