Nymphargus Cisneros-Heredia and McDiarmid, 2007
Nymphargus Cisneros-Heredia and McDiarmid, 2007, Zootaxa, 1572: 34. Type species: Nymphargus cochranae (Goin, 1961) [= Cochranella cochranae Goin, 1961], by original designation.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Western Andean slopes of Colombia and Ecuador and the eastern Andean slopes of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia
Comment
Velásquez-Álvarez, Rada, Sánchez-Pacheco, and Acosta-Galvis, 2007, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 2: 191-197, summarized the known ranges of the species of Nymphargus. Guayasamin, Castroviejo-Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada, and Vilà, 2009, Zootaxa, 2100: 1-97, redelimited the taxon and reported on phylogenetics.
Contained taxa
- Nymphargus anomalus (Lynch and Duellman, 1973)
- Nymphargus armatus (Lynch and Ruiz-Carranza, 1996)
- Nymphargus bejaranoi (Cannatella, 1980)
- Nymphargus buenaventura (Cisneros-Heredia and Yánez-Muñoz, 2007)
- Nymphargus cariticommatus (Wild, 1994)
- Nymphargus chami (Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1995)
- Nymphargus chancas (Duellman and Schulte, 1993)
- Nymphargus cochranae (Goin, 1961)
- Nymphargus cristinae (Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1995)
- Nymphargus garciae (Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1995)
- Nymphargus grandisonae (Cochran and Goin, 1970)
- Nymphargus griffithsi (Goin, 1961)
- Nymphargus ignotus (Lynch, 1990)
- Nymphargus lasgralarias Hutter and Guayasamin, 2012
- Nymphargus laurae Cisneros-Heredia and McDiarmid, 2007
- Nymphargus luminosus (Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1995)
- Nymphargus luteopunctatus (Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1996)
- Nymphargus mariae (Duellman and Toft, 1979)
- Nymphargus megacheirus (Lynch and Duellman, 1973)
- Nymphargus mixomaculatus (Guayasamin, Lehr, Rodríguez, and Aguilar, 2006)
- Nymphargus nephelophila (Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991)
- Nymphargus ocellatus (Boulenger, 1918)
- Nymphargus oreonympha (Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991)
- Nymphargus phenax (Cannatella and Duellman, 1982)
- Nymphargus pluvialis (Cannatella and Duellman, 1982)
- Nymphargus posadae (Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1995)
- Nymphargus prasinus (Duellman, 1981)
- Nymphargus puyoensis (Flores and McDiarmid, 1989)
- Nymphargus rosada (Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1997)
- Nymphargus ruizi (Lynch, 1993)
- Nymphargus siren (Lynch and Duellman, 1973)
- Nymphargus spilotus (Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1997)
- Nymphargus truebae (Duellman, 1976)
- Nymphargus vicenteruedai Velásquez-Álvarez, Rada, Sánchez-Pacheco, and Acosta-Galvis, 2007
- Nymphargus wileyi (Guayasamin, Bustamante, Almeida-Reinoso, and Funk, 2006)
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