Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Adelophryne gutturosa Hoogmoed and Lescure, 1984, Zool. Meded., Leiden, 58: 101. Holotype: BMNH 1983.1139, by original designation. Type locality: "between camp IV and V, northern slopes of Mount Roraima, Guyana (60° 46´ W 5° 17´ N), 3000 feet (914 m)".

English Names

Guiana Shield Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 70).

Distribution

Guiana Shield, from Mount Roraima, Mount Ayanganna, and Pakaraima Mountains, Guyana, nearby Venezuela (Bolívar), southern French Guiana, and to Serra do Veado, Amapá, Brazil; possibly extending into southern Surinam.

Comment

Ayarzagüena and Diego-Aransay, 1985, Mem. Soc. Cienc. Nat. La Salle, 45: 159-160, and Barrio-Amorós, 1999 "1998", Acta Biol. Venezuelica, 18: 50, provided the Venezuelan record. MacCulloch, Lathrop, Kok, Minter, Khan, and Barrio-Amoros, 2008, Zootaxa, 1884: 36-50, provided an account. Kok and Kalamandeen, 2008, Intr. Taxon. Amph. Kaieteur Natl. Park, 5: 150-151, provided an account. MacCulloch and Lathrop, 2009, R. Ontario Mus. Contrib. Sci., 4: 12, commented on specimens from Mount Ayanganna, Guyana. Ouboter and Jairam, 2012, Amph. Suriname: 334, commented on the lack of specimens from Surinam. Lourenço-de-Moraes, Solé, and Toledo, 2012, Zootaxa, 3441: 64, provided a dot map of the range.

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