Mannophryne molinai Rojas-Runjaic, Matta-Pereira, and La Marca, 2018

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

Mannophryne molinai Rojas-Runjaic, Matta-Pereira, and La Marca, 2018, Zootaxa, 4461: 454. Holotype: MHNLS 21355, by original designation. Type locality: "Quebrada La Rondona, Sierra de Aroa, Sucre municipality, Yaracuy state, Venezuela (10°19’20.8”N, 68o52’24.0”W; 1180 m asl. . .)". Zoobank publication registration: 78CCF5EE-CE8A-42DF-8905-CBBC3B0DA763

English Names

Sierra de Aroa Collared Frog (original publication). 

Distribution

Known only from its type locality (La Rondona), at the southeastern slope of Sierra de Aroa, in the western portion of the Cordillera de la Costa; possibly from the northeastern and western foothills of Sierra de Aroa, all in Yaracuy state, Venezuela.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Venezuela

Endemic: Venezuela

Comment

 See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 46, for comments on range, taxonomy, and literature.

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