Boana geographica ( Spix 1824 )

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 : 63-64

Boana geographica ( Spix 1824)

Holotype: Not designed. ZSM 35 /0 is part of the type series but is currently lost.

Type locality: Rio Tefé, Amazonas, Brazil.

Distribution: Region 4, 5. Widespread in tropical South America, east of Andes, including Trinidad. Widely distributed in southern and eastern Venezuela (Amazonas, Bolívar, and Delta Amacuro States).

Remarks: Fouquet et al. (2016) show a wider variation of both B. geographica and B. semilineata . They described B. diabolica from the eastern Guiana Shield. A detailed review should be done with Venezuelan populations. In the Boana semilineata species group ( Faivovich et al. 2005).

Selected references: Spix (1824); Günther (1858); Lutz (1927); Rivero (1961); Duellman (1971a, 1973, 1997); Hoogmoed and Gorzula (1979); Lynch (1979b); Gremone et al. (1986); Azevedo-Ramos (1995); Gorzula and Señaris (1998); Barrio-Amorós et al. (2011b); Señaris et al. (2014); Fouquet et al. (2016).