Allophryne ruthveni Gaige, 1926

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Allophrynidae > Genus: Allophryne > Species: Allophryne ruthveni

Allophryne ruthveni Gaige, 1926, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 176: 2. Holotype: UMMZ 63419, by original designation. Type locality: "Tukeit Hill, below Kaiteur Falls, British Guiana [= Guyana]".

Sphoenohyla seabrai Bokermann, 1958, Neotropica, 4: 43. Holotype: WCAB 3092, by original designation; now in MZUSP. Type locality: "Serra do Navio, Territorio Federal do Amapá, Brasil". Synonymy by Bokermann, 1966, Lista Anot. Local. Tipo Anf. Brasil.: 91.

Dryomelictes seabraiGoin, 1961, Ann. Carnegie Mus., 36: 9.

Sphaenorhynchus scabraiGorham, 1974, Checklist World Amph.: 112. Incorrect subsequent spelling of species name.

English Names

Tukeit Hill Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 36).

Distribution

South of the Orinoco River in Venezuela (Amazonas and Bolívar, 100 to 130 m elevation), through Guyana and Suriname to central Brazil (Rondonia, Amapá, Pará, Amazonas, northern Mato Grosso, and Roraima); expected in adjacent eastern Colombia. 

Geographic Occurrence

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

Likely/Controversially Present: Colombia

Comment

See Hoogmoed, 1969, Zool. Meded., Leiden, 44: 75–81, Caldwell and Hoogmoed, 1998, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 666: 1–3 (who provided a detailed account, literature review, and reported on advertisement call), and Lescure and Marty, 2000, Collect. Patrimoines Nat., Paris, 45: 44 (who also reported on advertisement call). De la Riva, Köhler, Lötters, and Reichle, 2000, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 14: 57, considered this species possibly to occur in Bolivia. Duellman, 1997, Sci. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Univ. Kansas, 2: 9, commented on a population in Venezuela. Barrio-Amorós, 1999 "1998", Acta Biol. Venezuelica, 18: 4, commented on the Venezuelan range. Langone and Segalla, 1997, Cuad. Herpetol., 11: 87–88, reported the species in the Estado de Rondônia, Brazil. Bernarde, Machado, Macedo-Bernarde, Monção, and Silva, 2007, Check List, 2(3): 5–6, provided an additional record for Rondônia, Brazil. Kok and Kalamandeen, 2008, Intr. Taxon. Amph. Kaieteur Natl. Park: 110–113, provided a brief, but informative, account. See account for Suriname population by Ouboter and Jairam, 2012, Amph. Suriname: 16–19. See Cole, Townsend, Reynolds, MacCulloch, and Lathrop, 2013, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 125: 370, for brief account of population in Guyana. See brief taxonomic account for Venezuela by Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 6. Señaris and Rojas-Runjaic, 2018, Vol. 6, Fauna Silvestre Escudo Guayanés: 101–150, discussed habitat and range in the Venezuelan Guayana. Señaris and Rojas-Runjaic, 2020, in Rull and Carnaval (eds.), Neotrop. Divers. Patterns Process.: 571–632, commented on range and conservation status in the Venezuelan Guayana. Taucce, Costa-Campos, Carvalho, and Michalski, 2022, Eur. J. Taxon., 836: 96–130, reported on distributon, literature, and conservation status for Amapá, Brazil. Fonseca, Almeida, Nascimento, Moraes, Machado, Bernarde, Costa-Campos, and Carvalho, 2022, Zootaxa, 5138: 196–200, compared the advertisement call with that of Allophryne resplendens and Allophryne relicta

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