Anomaloglossus wothuja (Barrio-Amorós, Fuentes-Ramos, and Rivas-Fuenmayor, 2004)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Dendrobatoidea > Family: Aromobatidae > Subfamily: Anomaloglossinae > Genus: Anomaloglossus > Species: Anomaloglossus wothuja

Colostethus wothuja Barrio-Amorós, Fuentes-Ramos, and Rivas-Fuenmayor, 2004, Salamandra, 40: 191. Holotype: MBUCV 6689, by original designation. Type locality: "base of Cerro Sipapo, Tobogán del Cuao, 150 m above sea level, 5° 05′ 09 N, 67° 27′ 07 W, Estado Amazonas, Venezuela".

Anomaloglossus wothujaGrant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 158.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Known only from the type locality (base of Cerro Sipapo, Tobogán del Cuao, 150 m above sea level, 5° 05′ 09 N, 67° 27′ 07 W, Estado Amazonas, Venezuela).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Venezuela

Endemic: Venezuela

Comment

 Sánchez, 2013, Zootaxa, 3637: 569–591, provided information on larval morphology. See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 39, for comments on range, taxonomy, and literature. Señaris 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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