Tepuihyla rodriguezi (Rivero 1968)

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 : 81

Tepuihyla rodriguezi (Rivero 1968)

Holotype: MCZ 64740 .

Type locality: Paso del Danto , Región de La Escalera, entre El Dorado y Santa Elena de Uairén, 1,300–1,400 m, Serranía de Lema, Estado Bolívar, Venezuela .

Distribution: Region 5. With synonymizing of Tepuihyla galani , T. talbergae , and T. rimarum with T. rodriguezi ( Jungfer et al. 2013, Kok et al. 2015), the distribution of the latter now extends from Paso el Danto in the northern versant of Sierra de Lema (type locality) through the higher sectors of the Gran Sabana, the foothills of Guadacapiapu tepui (type locality of T. galani ), atop of Ptari-tepui (type locality of T. rimarum ), and as low as Kaieteur National Park in Guyana (type locality of T. talbergae ), altitudinal range 366– 2,440 m.

Remarks. Tepuihyla galani (Ayarzagüena, Señaris et Gorzula, 1993) , T. talbergae Duellman and Yoshpa, 1996 , and T. rimarum (Ayarzagüena, Señaris and Gorzula 1993) recently synonymized with T. rodriguezi by Jungfer et al. (2013) and Kok et al. (2015).

Selected References: Rivero (1968); Ayarzagüena et al. (1992a,b); Duellman and Yoshpa (1996); Duellman (1997); Gorzula and Señaris (1998); Kok and Kalamandeen (2008); Jungfer et al. (2013); Señaris et al. (2014); Kok et al. (2015).