Aromobates cannatellai Barrio-Amorós and Santos, 2012

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Dendrobatoidea > Family: Aromobatidae > Subfamily: Aromobatinae > Genus: Aromobates > Species: Aromobates cannatellai

Aromobates cannatellai Barrio-Amorós and Santos, 2012, Zootaxa, 3422: 7. Holotype: CVULA 8327, by original designation. Type locality: "Parque Cascada de la Escalera, at the entrance of Mesa de Pérez, Municipio Uribante, Estado Táchira, Venezuela (8.0031 N, 71.7316 W), elevation 1140 m".

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Known only from the type locality (Parque Cascada de la Escalera, at the entrance of Mesa de Pérez, Municipio Uribante, Estado Táchira, Venezuela, 1140 m elevation) and from rural areas near La Garita in the department of Norte de Santander, Colombia, 701 m elevation. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Venezuela

Endemic: Venezuela

Comment

Barrio-Amorós and Santos, 2012, Zootaxa, 3422: 20-24, discussed and expanded the information available available for suggested that the population referred to Colostethus saltuensis in Colombia by Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 1-262, is actually an unnamed species most closely related to Aromobates cannatellai. See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 39, for comments on range, taxonomy, and literature, and noted that some populations of nominal Aromobates saltuensis in Colombia should be critically compared to this species. Acevedo-Rincón, Armesto, and Martinez Cuesta, 2018, Herpetol. Rev., 49: 728–729, reported the species from Norte de Santander, Colombia. 

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