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Boana roraima (Duellman and Hoogmoed, 1992)
Hyla roraima Duellman and Hoogmoed, 1992, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 147: 6. Holotype: BMNH 1979.560, by original designation. Type locality: "north slope of Mt. Roraima (05° 38′ N, 60° 44′ W, elev. 1,480 m), Rupununi District, Guyana". Warren, 1973, Roraima: 47, mapped the locality (discussed on page 80) as ca. 05°17′ N.
Hypsiboas roraima — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 87.
Hypsiboas angelicus Myers and Donnelly, 2008, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 308: 45. Holotype: EBRG 2733, by original designation. Type locality: "summit of Auyantepui at 5° 58′ N, 62° 33′ W (AMNH—Terramar Camp 4), 1600 m, Bolívar, Venezuela". Synonymy by Barrio-Amorós, Señaris Vasquez, MacCulloch, Lathrop, Guayasamin, and Duellman, 2011, Pap. Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 51: 21–28.
Boana roraima — Dubois, 2017, Bionomina, 11: 28.
Common Names
Hoogmoed's Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 57).
Distribution
Forested slopes of Mount Roraima and Mount Ayanganna in southwestern Guyana, and the Sierra de Lema and Auyantepui, Bolívar, Venezuela, 490 to1600 m elevation.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Guyana, Venezuela
Comment
In the Hyla geographica group, according to the original publication. In the Hypsiboas benitezi group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 86–87. MacCulloch and Lathrop, 2005, Phyllomedusa, 4: 25, reported the species for Mount Ayanganna, Guyana, and provided an account. MacCulloch and Lathrop, 2009, R. Ontario Mus. Contrib. Sci., 4: 14, commented on specimens from Mount Ayanganna, Guyana. Barrio-Amorós, Señaris Vasquez, MacCulloch, Lathrop, Guayasamin, and Duellman, 2011, Pap. Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 51: 21–28, discussed the range, vocalization, and systematics of the species. See Cole, Townsend, Reynolds, MacCulloch, and Lathrop, 2013, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 125: 407–408, for brief account and records for Guyana. Señaris Vasquez, Lampo, Rojas-Runjaic, and Barrio-Amorós, 2014, Guía Ilust. Anf. Parque Nac. Canaima: 164–165, 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): 66–67, for comments on range, systematics, and literature. 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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