Aromobates mayorgai (Rivero, 1980)
Colostethus mayorgai Rivero, 1980 "1978", Mem. Soc. Cienc. Nat. La Salle, 38: 100. Holotype: UPRM 5160, by original designation. Type locality: "El Chorotal (El Sineral), Carr. Mérida a La Azulita, 1800 m, Edo. Mérida, Venezuela".
Nephelobates mayorgai — La Marca, 1994, Inst. Geograf. Fac. Cienc. Forestal., Univ. Los Andes, An. Invest., 1991: 40.
Aromobates mayorgai — Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 160.
English Names
Mayorga Rocket Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 49).
Distribution
Several localities within Mérida state in high elevation cloud forest on the road from Mérida to La Azulita, Venezuela, 793-2400 m elevation.
Comment
Barrio-Amorós, 2004, Rev. Ecol. Latino Am., 9: 7, reported on distribution and relevant literature. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Nephelobates haydeeae) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 235. La Marca and Otero-López, 2012, Herpetotropicos, Mérida, 7: 55-74, rediagnosed the species and provided an account.
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