Cryptobatrachus boulengeri Ruthven, 1916
Cryptobatrachus boulengeri Ruthven, 1916, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 33: 2. Holotype: UMMZ 48530, by original designation. Type locality: "San Lorenzo, elevation of 4,500 feet, Santa Marta Mountains, [Departamento Magdalena,] Colombia".
Hyloscirtus boulengeri — Noble, 1917, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 37: 805.
English Names
Boulenger's Backpack Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 52).
Distribution
Northern slopes of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, northern Colombia, at elevations of 1230-2700 m.
Comment
See account provided in Lynch, 2008, Zootaxa, 1883: 26-68. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 313.
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