Otophryne pyburni Campbell and Clarke, 1998

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Otophryninae > Genus: Otophryne > Species: Otophryne pyburni

Otophryne pyburni Campbell and Clarke, 1998, Herpetologica, 54: 309. Holotype: UTA A-3814, by original designation. Type locality: "rainforest at 213 m elevation at Wacará, Vaupés, Colombia. This site is eat of Mitú and close to the Brazilian border at approximately 01° 09′ N, 69° 55′ W."

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

From Vaupés and Amazonas, Colombia, across the lowlands of southern Venezuela and southern Guyana to Suriname and French Guiana and through the Guianan region of Amazonas, Brazil, 100-1100 m elevation. Records from French Guiana and Pará and Amapá, Brazil, likely refer to an unnamed associate of Otophryne robusta. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela

Comment

Lescure and Marty, 2000, Collect. Patrimoines Nat., Paris, 45: 262–265, provided a photo and brief account for French Guiana. Barrio-Amorós, 1999 "1998", Acta Biol. Venezuelica, 18: 58, commented on the Venezuelan distribution. Carvalho, Bonora, and Vogt, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 349, provided the record for Parque Nacional do Pico da Neblina on the Venezuelan border. See account by MacCulloch, Lathrop, Minter, and Khan, 2008, Pap. Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 48: 247–261. See account for Suriname population by Ouboter and Jairam, 2012, Amph. Suriname: 286–287. See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 104, for comments on range and literature. Fouquet, Vidal, and Dewynter, 2019, Zoosystema, 41: 372, suggested that this represents a species complex. Taucce, Costa-Campos, Carvalho, and Michalski, 2022, Eur. J. Taxon., 836: 118, following Fouquet et al., 2019, discussed the status of records from French Guiana and Pará and Amapá, Brazil, referring them to Otophryne cf. robusta

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