Hyloxalus vergeli Hellmich, 1940
Hyloxalus vergeli Hellmich, 1940, Zool. Anz., 131: 122. Holotype: ZSM 110/1937 according to Glaw and Franzen, 2006, Spixiana, München, 29: 165. Type locality: "Finca El Vergel, nahe Fusagasugá, Ostkordillere Kolumbiens, rund 1800 m", Departamento Cundinamarca, Colombia.
Phyllobates vergeli — Cochran, 1966, Mem. Inst. Butantan, São Paulo, 33: 64.
Prostherapis vergeli —Dunn In Savage, 1968, Copeia, 1968: 6. by implication; Gorham, 1963, Canad. Field Nat., 77: 25.
Colostethus vergeli — Edwards, 1971, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 84: 148. Rivero and Serna, 1989 "1988", Caribb. J. Sci., 24: 141.
Hyloxalus vergeli — Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 169.
English Names
Hellmich's Rocket Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 49).
Distribution
Known only from the region of the type locality on the western slope of the Western Andes, Fusagasugá, Colombia, ca. 1800 m elevation.
Comment
See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Colostethus vergeli) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 226.
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