Gastrotheca excubitor Duellman and Fritts, 1972
Gastrotheca excubitor Duellman and Fritts, 1972, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 9: 23. Holotype: KU 139194, by original designation. Type locality: "northern slope of Abra Acanacu, 31 kilometers (by road) north-northeast of Paucartambo, Departamento Cuzco, Perú, 3370 m".
Gastrotheca (Opisthodelphys) excubitor — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 31.
English Names
Abra Acanacu Marsupial Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 53).
Distribution
Amazonian slopes of the Andes in Cuzco Department, southern Peru, 2000-3000 m elevation.
Comment
In the Gastrotheca marsupiata group of Duellman, Maxson, and Jesiolowski, 1988, Copeia, 1988: 527-543. 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: 396, who noted that the records for Cajamarca Department are in error.
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