Tepuihyla edelcae (Ayarzagüena, Señaris, and Gorzula, 1993)
Osteocephalus edelcae Ayarzagüena, Señaris, and Gorzula, 1993 "1992", Mem. Soc. Cienc. Nat. La Salle, 52: 122. Holotype: MHNLS 10626, by original designation. Type locality: "Auyan-tepuy, 10,8 km al este del Salto Angel. Estado Bolívar. Venezuela (5° 58′ N-62° 29′ W). 1.970 m s.n.m."
English Names
Ayarzaguena's Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 65).
White-lipped Bog-frog (Gorzula, 1992, in Huber (ed.), El Macizo del Chimantá: 267-280).
Distribution
Summits of the Chimantá Massif, Auyántepui, and the Los Testigos Range, Bolívar, Venezuela.
Comment
See distributional comments by Gorzula and Señaris, 1999 "1998", Scient. Guaianae, 8: 49-50. Barrio-Amorós, 1999 "1998", Acta Biol. Venezuelica, 18: 38, commented on the range. Myers and Donnelly, 2008, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 308: 60-67, discussed specimens from Auyantepui, Venezuela. Kok, MacCulloch, Means, Roelants, Van Bocxlaer, and Bossuyt, 2012, Curr. Biol., 22: R589-R590, implied that this name covers more than one species.
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