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Allobates pittieri (La Marca, Manzanilla, and Mijares-Urrutia, 2004)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Aromobatidae > Subfamily: Allobatinae > Genus: Allobates

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Colostethus pittieri La Marca, Manzanilla, and Mijares-Urrutia, 2004, Herpetotropicos, Mérida, 1: 42. Holotype: ULABG 5564, by original designation. Type locality: "Venezuela: Estado Aragua: Municipio Ocumare de la Costa de Oro (antes Municipio Mario Briceño Iragorri): quebrada afluente del Río La Trilla, 170 m s.n.m., entre la Estación Biológica de Rancho Grande y Ocumare de la Costa, vertiente Norte del Parque Nacional Henri Pittier (10° 22′ 52 N; 67° 44′ 67 W)".

Allobates pittieri — Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 162.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Cordillera de la Costa (150-1700 m elevation) and northeastern part of the Cordillera de Mérida in the states of Falcón, Lara, Aragua, and Carabobo, Venezuela.

Comment

In the Colostethus brunneus group and the sister taxon of Colostethus humilis, according to the original publication. See comment under Allobates.

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