Strabomantis biporcatus Peters, 1863

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 : 130-131

Strabomantis biporcatus Peters, 1863 *

Lectotype: ZMB 3330 B, assigned by Savage and Myers (2002).

Type locality: “Veragua,” in error for “northern Venezuela.”

Distribution: Region 2. Distributed throughout Cordillera de la Costa ( Fig. 1 in Barrio-Amorós and Kaiser 2008).

Remarks: Long-known as Eleutherodactylus cornutus maussi ( Rivero 1961) or Eleutherodactylus maussi (La Marca 1882; Barrio-Amorós 1998). Reviewed by Savage and Myers (2002), who determined the name biporcatus (originally stated from Veragua, Panama) applied to four specimens collected in Northern Venezuela, then Eleutherodactylus biporcatus . Crawford and Smith (2005) transferred E. biporcatus to genus Craugastor . Hedges et al. (2008) subsequently recovered Strabomantis and included biporcatus as its type species. Barrio-Amorós and Kaiser (2008) commented on phenotypic variation and distribution. In Strabomantis biporcatus species group of Hedges et al. (2008) and Padial et al. (2014).

Selected references: Boettger (1893); Lutz (1927); Ginés (1959); Rivero (1961, 1964a, d); Heatwole (1962); Mertens (1967); Lynch (1975, 1976); La Marca (1992); Manzanilla et al. (1996); Savage and Myers (2002); Rivero and Mijares (2004); Barrio-Amorós (2006c); Barrio-Amorós and Kaiser (2008).

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Fig. 1. Number of amphibian species known in Venezuela since 1927.