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"Prostherapis" dunni Rivero, 1961
Prostherapis dunni Rivero, 1961, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 126: 157. Holotype: FMNH 35987, by original designation. Type locality: "above Caracas", Distrito Federal, Venezuela.
Colostethus dunni — Edwards, 1971, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 84: 148.
Common Names
Dunn's Rocket Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 48).
Distribution
Central portion of the Coastal Range above the Caracas region of Venezuela, 500-1520 m.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Venezuela
Endemic: Venezuela
Comment
See account by La Marca, 2004, Herpetotropicos, Mérida, 1: 19-28 (as Colostethus dunni), who considered this species to have no close relatives in Venezuela. Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 174, could not allocate this species beyond Aromobatidae, although they considered it likely that it is a species of Aromobates. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Colostethus dunni) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 222. See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris Vasquez, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 33, for comments on range, taxonomy, possible extinction, and literature.
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