CLASS AMPHIBIA • 



Or:£R A\ura 



Family Bufonidae 



Bjxfo gT:amilosvLS Jbeebi Gallardo 1965 

 Distribution: Rancho Grande (Municipio Federacion? ) ; Pedregal (Municipio 

 Democracia; ; Yaracal (Municipio Cacique Manaure) ; Coro, La Florida 

 (Municipio Miranda) ; Istmo de Medanos (Municipio Falcon) . 

 Habitats: Littoral xerophilous scrub; thorny xerophilous scrub; 

 tropophilous deciduous and semi-deciduous scrub; tropophilous and 

 deciduous low and median forest; cultivated lands. 



References: Gallardo (1965. Bull. Mus . Comp. Zool., 125:111-134); 

 Rivero (1967. Mem. Soc. Cienc. Nat. La Salle, 27 (76) : 5-10) ; Rivero- 

 Blanco & Dixon (1979. Monog. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 7:281-298); La 

 Marca (1992. Cuad. Geog. Univ. Los Andes Merida, 9:1-197). 



Bu£o m3T-iTiTig (Linnaeus, 1758) 

 Distribution: T.his is the most widely distributed species of anuran in 

 Falcon, from: Cerro Santa Ana, Yabuquiva (both localities within the 

 Municipio Falcon, Peninsula de Paraguana) ; Boca de Aroa, Tucacas (both 

 localities within the Municipio Silva) ; Taratara (Municipio Sucre); Mene 

 de Mauroa, Cerro Socopo (both localities within the Municipio Mauroa) , 

 near Chichiriviche (Municipio Monsenor Iturriza); Riecito (Municipio 

 Jacura); San Francisco (Municipio Federacion); Coro (Municipio Miranda); 

 La Vela, Sabana Larga, Guaibacoa (Municipio Colina) ; Cabure, Curimagua 



(both localities within the Municipio Petit) . 

 Habitats: All habitats within the Falcon territory. 

 References: Bisbal (1990. Acta Cient. Venez., 41:177-185); Evans & Lampo 



(1996. J. Herpetol., 30 ( 1) : 73-76) ; La Marca (1992. Idem); Mijares- 

 Urrutia, Lampo & Arends (1996. Herpetol. Review, 27(3): 138); Rivero 



(1961. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard, 126 ( 1) : 1-207 ) ; Rivero (1963. 

 Carib. J. Sci., 3 (4 ): 197-199) ; Rivero-Blanco & Dixon (1979. Idem). 



Bufo s temosigrna tus Gunther 1858 

 Distribution: Cataratas de Hueque, near San Diego, Cabure, Curimagua 

 ;Mur.icipic Petit, Sierra de San Luis); Sanare (Municipio Monsenor 

 Iturriza) . 



Habitats: Tropophilous semi-deciduous seasonal forest; tropophilous 

 deciduous basimontane forest; coastal cloud forest. 

 References: Rivero (1961. Idem); Rivero (1963. Idem); La Marca 

 (1992. Idem); La Marca & Mi jares-Urrutia (1996. Alytes, 14:101-114); 

 Shreve (1947. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 99 (5) : 519-537 . Under the name B. 

 alatus starnosignatus) . 



Bufo sp. 1 {margaritifer group) 

 Distribution: Cerro Galicia, Curimagua (Municipio Petit, Sierra de San 

 Luis) . 



Habitats: Tropophilous deciduous basimontane forest; coastal cloud 

 forest . 



Remarks: These specimens represent an undescribed taxon of the B. 

 margaritifer group (sensu Hoogmoed, 1989. Pp. 113-123. In: Vertebrates in 

 the Tropics. Peters, G. & R. Hutterer (eds.). Mus. Alexander Koenig. 

 Bonn), and is under study by the authors. 

 References : None . 



