Pleurodema brachyops

Colombian Four-eyed Frog

Cope, 1869

Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Leptodactylidae
Subfamily: Leptodactylinae

Description

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Distribution

Guyana and northern Brazil (Roraima) through Venezuela (including Isla Margarita) and Colombia into Panama in dry llanos and savanna areas; also Curaçao, Aruba, Bonaire, and Klein Bonaire in the Netherlands Antilles.

Habitat & Ecology

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Reproduction

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Conservation

Status: Not Listed, but habitat destruction threatens amphibians worldwide.

Other Comments

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References

Villa, J., Wilson, L.D., & J.D. Johnson 1988 Middle American Herpetology. Univ. of Missouri Press, 131 pp.
Frank, N., & E. Ramus 1996 A Complete Guide to Scientific and Common Names of Reptiles and Amphibians of the World. NG Publishing, 337 pp

Other Available References from Amphibian Species of the World

Lystris brachyops Cope, 1869 "1868", Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 20: 312. Syntypes: ANSP 2260-64, according to Malnate, 1971, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 123: 349. Type locality: "Magadelne River, New Grenada [=Colombia]".
Pleurodema elegans Steindachner, 1863, Sitzungsber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math. Naturwiss. Kl., 48: 1-4. Syntypes: NHMW 4432. 1-5, according to Häupl, Tiedemann, and Grillitsch, 1994, Kat. Typen Herpetol. Samml. Amphib.: 31. . Type locality: Forte de Rio Branco [Colombia]. Primary homonym of Pleurodema elegans Bell, 1843. Synonymy by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus.: 232.
Pleurodema sachsi Peters, 1877, Monatsber. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1877: 460. Holotype: ZMB 9094 according to Bauer, Günther, and Klipfel, 1995, Herpetol. Contrib. W. C. H. Peters: 46. Type locality: "San Fernando de Apure", Venezuela. Synonymy by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus.: 232.
Paludicola brachyops--Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Brit. Mus.: 232.
Pleurodema brachyops--Ruthven, 1922, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 69: 53; Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 499; Rivero, 1961, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 126: 88.
Paludicola sachsi--Stejneger, 1933, Medd. Zool. Mus. Oslo, 40: 48.
Rivero, 1961, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 126: 88
Cochran and Goin, 1970, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 288: 483-486.