Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Centrolenella orientalis Rivero, 1968, Mem. Soc. Cienc. Nat. La Salle, 28: 308. Holotype: MCZ 72497, by original designation. Type locality: "Cerro Turumiquire, 1.200 m, Estados Sucre-Monagas, Venezuela".

Centrolenella orientalis orientalis — Hardy, 1984, Bull. Maryland Herpetol. Soc., 20: 165.

Centrolenella orientalis tobagoensis Hardy, 1984, Bull. Maryland Herpetol. Soc., 20: 165. Holotype: USNM 195045, by original designation. Type locality: "along the Roxborough--Partatuvier Road in the vicinity of Bloody Bay, St. John Parish, Tobago". Subspecies status rejected by Cannatella and Lamar, 1986, J. Herpetol., 20: 309.

Hyalinobatrachium orientalis — Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 57: 24. Disagreement in gender.

Hyalinobatrachium orientale — Myers and Donnelly, 1997, Am. Mus. Novit., 3213: 16.

Hyalinobatrachium orientale tobagoensis — Murphy, 1997, Amph. Rept. Trinidad Tobago: 61.

Hyalinobatrachium orientale tobagoense — Frost, 2004, Amph. Spec. World Online, vers. 3.0: . Correction of gender of subspecies name.

English Names

Eastern Glass Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 47).

Distribution

Sierra de Lema in the Venezuelan Guyana and Tobago I.

Comment

In the Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni group, according to Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 57: 1-30. Cannatella and Lamar, 1986, J. Herpetol., 20: 307-317, rejected the recognition of subspecies. See redescription by Rivero, 1985, Brenesia, 23: 346. Gorzula and Señaris, 1999 "1998", Scient. Guaianae, 8: 22, noted geographic variation between the northern and southern populations. Barrio-Amorós, 1999 "1998", Acta Biol. Venezuelica, 18: 15, suggested that this is a complex of species. Murphy, 1997, Amph. Rept. Trinidad Tobago: 61, provided an account for Hyalinobatrachium orientale tobagense. Barrio-Amorós, 2004, Rev. Ecol. Latino Am., 9: 6, reported on distribution and relevant literature, and suggested that Hyalinobatrachium orientale is a complex of species, with the nominate form being endemic to northeastern Venezuela in the states of Monagas and Sucre. Señaris and Ayarzagüena, 2005, Rev. Taxonom. Fam. Centrolenidae de Venezuela: 207-217, provided a review of the morphology, natural history, and range of this species (in the sense of including Hyalinobatrachium orocostale). See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 219. Castroviejo-Fisher, Señaris, Ayarzagüena, and Vilà, 2009 "2008", Herpetologica, 64: 472-484, reviewed the systematics of this species.

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