Boana roraima

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anura
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Anura

Familia: Hylidae
Subfamilia: Cophomantinae
Genus: Boana
Species: Boana roraima

Boana roraima (Duellman & Hoogmoed, 1992)

Holotype: BMNH 1979.560, adult ♀, collected by Adrian N. Warren on 29 August 1971.
Type locality: “north slope of Mt. Roraima (05°38′ N, 60°44′ W, elev. 1,480 m), Rupununi District, Guyana”.

Hyla roraima Duellman & Hoogmoed, 1992: 6 [original combination]
Hypsiboas roraima — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell & Wheeler, 2005: 87 [subsequent combination]
Boana roraima — Dubois, 2017: 28 [subsequent combination]

Hypsiboas angelicus Myers & Donnelly, 2008: 45 [synonymyzed by Barrio-Amorós, Señaris, MacCulloch, Lathrop, Guayasamin & Duellman (2011: 21)]
- Holotype: EBRG 2733 (field no. CWM19318), adult ♂, collected by AMNH–Terramar Expedition between 19–21 February 1994.
- Type locality: “summit of Auyantepui at 5°58′ N, 62°33′ W (AMNH-Terramar Camp 4), 1600 m, Bolívar, Venezuela”.

Duellman, W.E. & Hoogmoed, M.S. 1992. Some hylid frogs from the Guiana Highlands, northeastern South America: New species, distributional records, and a generic reallocation. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas 147: 1–21. BHL
Myers, C.W. & Donnelly, M.A. 2008. The summit herpetofauna of Auyantepui, Venezuela: report from the Robert G. Goelet American Museum–Terramar Expedition. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 308: 1–147. hdl: 2246/5896
Faivovich, J., Haddad, C.F.B., Garcia, P.C.A., Frost, D.R., Campbell, J.A. & Wheller, W.C. 2005. Systematic review of the frog family Hylidae, with special reference to Hylinae: phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 294: 1–240. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090(2005)294[0001:SROTFF]2.0.CO;2 ; hdl: 2246/462 Reference page.
Barrio-Amorós, C.L., Señaris, J.C., MacCulloch, R.D., Lathrop, A., Guayasamin, J.M. & Duellman, W.E. 2011. Distribution, vocalization and taxonomic status of Hypsiboas roraima and H. angelicus (Amphibia: Anura: Hylidae). Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 51: 21–28.
Dubois, A. 2017. The nomenclatural status of Hysaplesia, Hylaplesia, Dendrobates and related nomina (Amphibia, Anura), with general comments on zoological nomenclature and its governance, as well as on taxonomic databases and websites. Bionomina 11: 1–48. DOI: 10.11646/bionomina.11.1.1 Reference page.

Frost, D.R. 2021. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.1. Electronic Database accessible at https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/index.php. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. DOI: 10.5531/db.vz.0001 Boana roraima . Accessed on 14 Apr 2008.
IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group. 2020. IUCN: Boana roraima (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T154179412A109536167. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T154179412A109536167.en

English: Hoogmoed's Treefrog