Hyalinobatrachium ibama Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1998

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Centrolenidae > Subfamily: Hyalinobatrachinae > Genus: Hyalinobatrachium > Species: Hyalinobatrachium ibama

Hyalinobatrachium ibama Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1998, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 22: 581. Holotype: ICN 12602, by original designation. Type locality: "[Colombia,] Departamento de Santander, municipio de Gámbita, Inspección Policía El Taladro, Km. 57-58 carretera Duitama a Charalá, 2400 m".

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Western slope of the Cordillera Oriental of Colombia in the Department of Santander (municipalities of Charalá, Gámbita, and Tona), 1600-2050 m elevation; apparently an allopatric population in Venezuela in Barinas (state) at San Isidro.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia, Venezuela

Comment

In the Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni group according to the original publication. Barrio-Amorós, 2006, Herpetol. Rev., 37: 238, provided the Venezuelan record. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 219. See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 28, suggested that this species may be a synonym of Hyalinobatrachium pallidum

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