Stefania scalae Rivero, 1970
Stefania scalae Rivero, 1970, Bol. Soc. Venezol. Cienc. Nat., 28: 456. Holotype: MCZ 64373, by original designation. Type locality: "the region of La Escalera, road between El Dorado and Sta. Elena de Uairén, around 1,200 m., Edo. Bolívar, Venezuela".
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Upland streams in the La Escalera region, Bolívar, Venezuela; possibly into adjacent Guyana and Brazil.
Comment
Removed from the synonymy of Stefania evansi by Señaris, Ayarzagüena, and Gorzula, 1997 "1996", Publ. Asoc. Amigos Doñana, 7: 37, where it had been placed by Duellman and Hoogmoed, 1984, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 75: 9. See comments by Gorzula and Señaris, 1999 "1998", Scient. Guaianae, 8: 48. MacCulloch and Lathrop, 2002, Herpetologica, 58:342, discussed the species. MacCulloch and Lathrop, 2009, R. Ontario Mus. Contrib. Sci., 4: 13, commented on specimens from Mount Ayanganna, Guyana.
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