Rhaebo glaberrimus (Günther, 1869)
Bufo glaberrimus Günther, 1869 "1868", Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1868: 483. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.20.56 (formerly 68.3.4.9) according to M.S. Hoogmoed in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 46. Type locality: "Bogota", Cundinamarca, Colombia. Regarded as in error by Mueses-Cisneros, Cisneros-Heredia, and McDiarmid, 2012, Zootaxa, 3447: 33, who implied this locality to be the point of shipment.
Bufo guttatus glaberrimus — Stebbins and Hendrickson, 1959, Univ. California Publ. Zool., 56: 513. and Rivero, 1961, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 126: 20.
Bufo glaberrimus — Cochran and Goin, 1970, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 288: 113. and Schlüter, 1981, Stud. Neotrop. Fauna Environ., 16: 221-223.
Rhaebo glaberrimus — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 365.
English Names
Cundinamarca Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 41).
Distribution
Amazonian Colombia (departments of Boyacá, Casanare, Cundinamarca, and Meta) in the eastern piedmont of the Cordillera Oriental, 520-1240 m elevation; and in the state of Táchira, Venezuela, at 300-1400 m elevation.
Comment
Chacón-Ortiz, Diaz de Pascual, and Barrio-Amorós, 2002 "2000", Acta Biol. Venezuelica, 20: 65-69, provided the Venezuela records and disputed suggestions (e.g., Hoogmoed, 1990, in Peters and Hutterer (eds.), Vert. Tropics: 113-123) that Rhaebo glaberrimus might be conspecific with Rhaebo guttatus (as Bufo). Barrio-Amorós, 2004, Rev. Ecol. Latino Am., 9: 3, noted Venezuelan distribution and relevant literature. Lynch, 2006, Caldasia, 28: 137, discussed misidentifications in Colombia. Mueses-Cisneros, Cisneros-Heredia, and McDiarmid, 2012, Zootaxa, 3447: 22-40, redelimited the species range with respect to the newly recognized Rhaebo ecuadorensis and commented on confusion with that species in Peru and Bolivia.
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