Chiasmocleis hudsoni Parker, 1940
Chiasmocleis hudsoni Parker, 1940, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 11, 5: 260. Holotype: BMNH 1939.1.1.3, by original designation. Type locality: "New River, British Guiana [=Guyana] (750 feet)" (this locality is actually in southwestern Surinam according to M. S. Hoogmoed in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 376.
English Names
Hudson's Humming Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 88).
Distribution
Cerro Neblina in Guianan Venezuela, as well as in Guyana, Surinam, and French Guiana; presumably to be found in adjacent Brazil.
Comment
Lescure and Marty, 2000, Collect. Patrimoines Nat., Paris, 45: 266-267, provided a photo and brief account for French Guiana. Zweifel and Myers, 1989, Am. Mus. Novit., 2947: 1-24, reported the species for Venezuela. Barrio-Amorós and Schargel, 2003, Herpetol. Rev., 34: 380, provided an additional Venezuelan record and commented on the distribution. See account for Surinam population by Ouboter and Jairam, 2012, Amph. Suriname: 272-273.
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