Some new species can be foretold: An endemic collared frog (Aromobatidae: Mannophryne La Marca, 1992) is discovered in a still herpetologically unexplored mountain range in northern Venezuela

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Marca, Enrique La, Mijares-Urrutia, Abraham, Saavedra, Luis A., Gottberg, Carlos (2023): Some new species can be foretold: An endemic collared frog (Aromobatidae: Mannophryne La Marca, 1992) is discovered in a still herpetologically unexplored mountain range in northern Venezuela. Anartia (Oxford, England) 36: 63-74, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10429600, URL: dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10429599 ABSTRACT A morphological study of small body sized Mannophryne frog specimens from the Sierra de San Luis, Venezuela, revealed that they belong to an undescribed species.

By having a narrow collar, the new species differentiates from all Mannophryne having a wide collar (a character present in almost half of the species included in this genus). From the rest of narrow-collared Mannophryne it is easily differentiated by a combination of different foot-web formula and pattern of coloration. The geographically closest species is M. caquetio Mijares-Urrutia & Arends, 1999, from which it differs by having a distinctive pattern of coloration, different shape of the tip of the snout, size of tympanum, degree of detachment of tongue from floor of mouth, by having lateral fringes along toes not forming flap folding on digits, and by having a more extensive foot-web.