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

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Dendrobatoidea > Family: Aromobatidae > Subfamily: Allobatinae > Genus: Allobates > Species: Allobates pittieri

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 pittieriGrant, 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 Lara, Falcón, Aragua, and Carabobo, Venezuela.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Venezuela

Endemic: Venezuela

Comment

In the Colostethus brunneus group and the sister taxon of Colostethus humilis, according to the original publication. See comment under Allobates. See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 34, for comments on range, taxonomy, and literature.

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