Oreophrynella quelchii (Boulenger 1895)

Barrio-Amorós, César L., Rojas-Runjaic, Fernando J. M. & Señaris, J. Celsa, 2019, Catalogue of the amphibians of Venezuela: Illustrated and annotated species list, distribution, and conservation, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 180) 13 (1), pp. 1-198 : 13

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.11404264
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11404883
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4608879F-FFA2-FF96-6DEC-F9B1FD19FA59
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Oreophrynella quelchii (Boulenger 1895)
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Oreophrynella quelchii (Boulenger 1895) View in CoL

Syntypes: BM 95.4.19.1–5; 99.3.25.7–13; UK 126081– 82; ZFMK, MCZ 3500–02 About MCZ .

Type locality: “Summit of Mt. Roraima, between British Guiana and Venezuela, at an altitude (elevation) of 8,500 feet.”

Distribution: Region 5. Known from the summit of Mt. Roraima , a tepui extending across three countries: Venezuela, Guyana, and Brazil.

Selected references: Boulenger (1895a,b; 1900); Ginés (1959); Rivero (1961, 1964b); McDiarmid (1971); Hoogmoed (1979b); McDiarmid and Gorzula (1989); La Marca (1992); Señaris et al. (1994, 2014); Gorzula and Señaris (1998); McDiarmid and Donnelly (2005).