Atelopus barbotini Lescure, 1981
Atelopus spumarius barbotini Lescure, 1981, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Sect. A, Zool., 3: 894. Holotype: MNHNP 1979.1505, by original designation. Type locality: "Saül (Guyane française) ... prčs de sources de la Mana, au pied des mots Galbao ŕ 10,3 km de Saül (3° 35′ N, 53° 55′ W, alt. 200 m)". Regarded by Kok, 2000, Brit. Herpetol. Soc. Bull., 71: 6, as a likely synonym of Atelopus flavescens, but he did not make the synonymy.
Atelopus barbotini — Lötters, Boistel, Blanc, Haddad, and Van der Meijden, 2005, in Rueda-Almonacid et al. (eds.), Ranas Arlequines: XXX.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Uplands of central French Guiana.
Comment
Noonan and Gaucher, 2005, Mol. Ecol., 14: 3017-3031, provided the evidence for Atelopus barbotini being non-conspecific with Atelopus spumarius, but did not make the taxonomic change because it was not clear to them that this population was not conspecific with some other, unstudied population, of Atelopus. Lescure and Marty, 2000, Collect. Patrimoines Nat., Paris, 45: 48-49, provided a brief account and photo of Atelopus spumarius barbotini. Lötters, Van der Meijden, Coloma, Boistel, Cloetens, Ernst, Lehr, and Veith, 2011, Syst. Biodiversity, 9: 54, rejected the conspecificity of Atelopus barbotini and Atelopus spumarius. Lötters, Van der Meijden, Coloma, Boistel, Cloetens, Ernst, Lehr, and Veith, 2011, Syst. Biodiversity, 9: 53, suggested that Atelopus barbotini may be a synonym of Atelopus flavescens.
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