Gastrotheca angustifrons (Boulenger, 1898)
Nototrema angustifrons Boulenger, 1898, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1898: 124. Syntypes: BMNH 1947.2.22.38-39 (formerly 98.4.28.160-161) according to Condit, 1964, J. Ohio Herpetol. Soc., 4: 86. Type locality: "Cachabé" (= Cachabí), Provincia Esmeraldas, Ecuador. Noted elsewhere in the original publication as "Cachabé, a small village on the river of that name, on the N.W. Coast, in the Prov. Esmeraldas . . . . probably about 500 feet above the sea".
Gastrotheca angustifrons — Peters, 1955, Rev. Ecuat. Entomol. Parsitol., 2: 339.
Gastrotheca (Opisthodelphys) angustifrons — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 31.
English Names
Pacific Marsupial Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 52).
Distribution
Pacific lowlands of northwestern Ecuador (Esmeraldas Province) and western Colombia (Departments of Antioquia, Cauca, Valle del Cauca, and Chocó), 100-600 m elevation, in disjunct populations.
Comment
In the Gastrotheca ovifera group by implication of Duellman, Maxson, and Jesiolowski, 1988, Copeia, 1988: 527-543. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 394.
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