Gastrotheca ovifera (Lichtenstein and Weinland, 1854)
Notodelphys ovifera Lichtenstein and Weinland, 1854, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1854: 373. Holotype: ZMB by original designation; given as ZMB 3073 by Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 18. Type locality: "Venezuela"; restricted to "Puerto Cabello, Carabobo, Venezuela" by Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 18. Also named as new by Weinland, 1854, Arch. Anat. Physiol. Wiss. Med., 1854: 473.
Notodelphis dorsigera Schlegel, 1858, Handl. Dierkd., 2: 59. Holotype: Not stated, but presumably in RMNH. Type locality: "Venezuela". Synonymy by Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 223.
Opisthodelphys ovifera — Günther, 1859 "1858", Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 117.
Nototrema oviferum — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 418.
Hyla vogli Müller, 1938, Zool. Anz., 121: 284. Holotype: ZSM 67/1937, according to Glaw and Franzen, 2006, Spixiana, München, 29: 170. Type locality: "Avila (Hazienda 'Los Venados')", mountains near Maracay, Venezuela. Synonymy by Rivero, 1961, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 126: 143.
Gastrotheca ovifera — Rivero, 1961, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 126: 143.
Gastrotheca (Opisthodelphys) ovifera — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 31.
English Names
Pouched Frog (Cochran, 1961, Living Amph. World: 143; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 52).
Giant Marsupial Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 53).
Distribution
Cloud forests of the Cordillera de la Costa, northern Venezuela, 800-1800 m elevation.
Comment
In the Gastrotheca ovifera group of Duellman, Maxson, and Jesiolowski, 1988, Copeia, 1988: 527-543. See Manzanilla and Sanchez, 2003, Herpetol. Rev., 34: 381, for a recent range extension. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 397. Valera-Leal, Acevedo, Pérez-Sánchez, Vega, and Manzanilla, 2011, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 59: 329-345, documented disappearances for historical localities in the Cordillera de la Costa, northern Venezuela.
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