Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Allophryne ruthveni Gaige, 1926, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 176: 2. Holotype: UMMZ 63419, by original designation. Type locality: "Tukeit Hill, below Kaiteur Falls, British Guiana [= Guyana]".

Sphoenohyla seabrai Bokermann, 1958, Neotropica, 4: 43. Holotype: WCAB 3092, by original designation; now in MZUSP. Type locality: "Serra do Navio, Territorio Federal do Amapá, Brasil". Synonymy by Bokermann, 1966, Lista Anot. Local. Tipo Anf. Brasil.: 91.

Dryomelictes seabrai — Goin, 1961, Ann. Carnegie Mus., 36: 9.

Sphaenorhynchus scabrai — Gorham, 1974, Checklist World Amph.: 112. Incorrect subsequent spelling of species name.

English Names

Tukeit Hill Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 36).

Distribution

Non-montane southern Venezuela, through Guyana, Surinam, and Surinam to central Brazil (Rondonia, Amapa, Pará, Amazonas, northern Mato Grosso, and Roraima), and possibly into adjacent Bolivia (see comment); expected in adjacent eastern Colombia. .

Comment

For accounts see Hoogmoed, 1969, Zool. Meded., Leiden, 44: 75-81, and Lescure and Marty, 2000, Collect. Patrimoines Nat., Paris, 45: 44. De la Riva, Köhler, Lötters, and Reichle, 2000, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 14: 57, considered this species possibly to occur in Bolivia. Barrio-Amorós, 1999 "1998", Acta Biol. Venezuelica, 18: 4, commented on the Venezuelan range. Langone and Segalla, 1997, Cuad. Herpetol., 11: 87-88, reported the species in the Estado de Rondônia, Brazil. Bernarde, Machado, Macedo-Bernarde, Monção, and Silva, 2007, Check List, 2(3): 5-6, provided an additional record for Rondônia, Brazil. Kok and Kalamandeen, 2008, Intr. Taxon. Amph. Kaieteur Natl. Park, 5: 110-113, provided a brief, but informative, account. See account for Surinam population by Ouboter and Jairam, 2012, Amph. Suriname: 16-19.

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