Pristimantis yukpa Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic & Infante, [2008]

Rivas, Gilson A., Sibira, Luis E. & Barros, Tito R., 2022, Catalogue of Type Specimens in the amphibians and reptiles collection of the Museo de Biología, Universidad del Zulia (MBLUZ), Maracaibo, Venezuela, Anartia (Oxford, England) 35, pp. 14-21 : 16-17

Pristimantis yukpa Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic & Infante, [2008] : 84.

Paratypes (corrected to MBLUZ 151 ; see comments below): MBLUZ 023-025 (three adult females), Caño

2 Another collection representative of the fauna of western Venezuela is the Colección Herpetológica Regional del Centro de Investigaciones en Ecología y Zonas Áridas (CIEZAH) of the Universidad Nacional Experimental “Francisco de Miranda ” (UNEFM), formerly kept in Santa Ana de Coro, but currently immersed in the Museo de la Estación Biológica de Rancho Grande (EBRG) near Maracay, Aragua state.

María Lionza, San José de Los Altos , municipio Jesús Enrique Lossada, Sierra de Perijá, estado Zulia, Venezuela (10º 41’ N, 72º 26’ W), 551 m asl. 10 March 1987, Á[ngel L.] Viloria, R [ossana] Calchi and C[armen Z.] García .

Remarks: the manuscript of the description of this taxon was accepted for publication on January, 16, 2008; therefore the correct date of publication is not the printed date in the journal (2007), but 2008. Checking the museum catalogue, numbers MBLUZ 023-025 belong to three different species ( Pipa parva, Pseudopaludicola pusilla and Leptodactylus sp. , respectively), with a different locality (Río Machango, Estado Zulia, Venezuela) from the one where the paratypes of Pristimantis yukpa (wrongly cited as MBLUZ 023-025 in original description) have been collected. On the other hand, there are three individuals of “ Eleuterodactylus ” catalogued under number MBLUZ 151 from the type locality of P. yukpa , with a note written in pencil that says “loaned to César Barrio on March 2, 2000 ”; therefore the true number of the three paratypes of P. yukpa housed in MBLUZ is 151, instead of MBLUZ 023-025. However and similar to that which occurs with the Holotype of Pristimantis turik (MBLUZ 155), the current location of the three specimens under number MBLUZ 151 is unclear. It is currently a valid species with a geographic distribution in Colombia and Venezuela ( Arias et al. 2023).