Rhinella rostrata (Noble, 1920)
Bufo rostratus Noble, 1920, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 42: 445. Holotype: AMNH 1359, by original designation. Type locality: "Santa Rita Creek, fourteen miles north of the village of Mesopotamia in the southern part of the Department of Antioquia, Colombia".
Bufo rostratus rostratus — Cochran and Goin, 1970, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 288: 93.
Rhamphophryne rostratus — Trueb, 1971, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 216: 6.
Rhinella rostrata — Chaparro, Pramuk, and Gluesenkamp, 2007, Herpetologica, 63: 211. by implication.
English Names
Mesopotamia Beaked Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 45).
Distribution
Knownn only from the type locality on the western slope of the Cordillera Occidental in the Department of Antioquia, Colombia.
Comment
Estupiñán, 2004, in Rueda-Almonacid et al. (eds.), Libro Rojo Anf. Colombia: 287-291, provided an account and map (as Rhamphophryne rostrata). See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Rhamphophryne rostrata) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 204.
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