Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Centrolenella taylori Goin, 1968 "1967", Q. J. Florida Acad. Sci., 30: 115. Holotype: BMNH 1939.1.1.65, by original designation. Type locality: "elevation of 750 ft. along the New River, Guyana" (in region claimed by Surinam; see comment by M. S. Hoogmoed In Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 85).

Hyalinobatrachium taylori — Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 57: 25.

English Names

Taylor's Glass Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 48).

Distribution

Guianan Shield in southern and central Surinam, Guyana, French Guiana, and southeastern Venezuela; presumably in adjacent Brazil.

Comment

In the Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni group, according to Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 57: 1-30. See Ayarzagüena, 1992, Publ. Asoc. Amigos Doñana, 1: 30 for account (as Centrolenella taylori—with green bones and not visible heart). Lescure and Marty, 2000, Collect. Patrimoines Nat., Paris, 45: 78-79, provided a brief account (for a frog with white bones and visible heart) and photo. (Note that the differences in morphology between the frogs described by Ayarzagüena and by Lescure and Marty, suggest that at least one of these is not Hyalinobatrachium taylori—C. L. Barrio Amorós, personal comm.) of Myers and Donnelly, 1997, Am. Mus. Novit., 3213: 16, doubted the identification of the Venezuelan record. See distributional comments by Gorzula and Señaris, 1999 "1998", Scient. Guaianae, 8: 22. Señaris and Ayarzagüena, 2005, Rev. Taxonom. Fam. Centrolenidae de Venezuela: 221-232, provided a review of the morphology, natural history, and range of this species. Cisneros-Heredia and McDiarmid, 2007, Zootaxa, 1572: 29, noted that the phylogenetic position of this species is questionable and deserves scrutiny. See account by Kok and Castroviejo-Fisher, 2008, Zootaxa, 1680: 44-46, and note by Myers and Donnelly, 2008, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 308: 30. Barrio-Amorós and Brewer-Carias, 2008, Zootaxa, 1942: 18, noted misidentifications in the literature. Kok and Kalamandeen, 2008, Intr. Taxon. Amph. Kaieteur Natl. Park, 5: 144-145, provided an account. Castroviejo-Fisher, Vilà, Ayarzagüena, Blanc, and Ernst, 2011, Zootaxa, 3132: 1-55, provided a detailed account and molecular tree of relationships. See account for Surinam population by Ouboter and Jairam, 2012, Amph. Suriname: 82-83.

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