Gastrotheca plumbea (Boulenger, 1882)
Nototrema plumbeum Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 417. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.31.19 (formerly 78.1.25.22) according to Condit, 1964, J. Ohio Herpetol. Soc., 4: 87; animal figured on pl. 28, fig. 1 of the original publication. Type locality: "Intac", Provincia Imbabura, Ecuador.
Gastrotheca plumbeam — Peters, 1955, Rev. Ecuat. Entomol. Parsitol., 2: 346.
Gastrotheca (Opisthodelphys) plumbea — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 32.
English Names
Silver Marsupial Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 53).
Distribution
Pacific slopes of Andes in northern and central Ecuador, 2500-3200 m elevation.
Comment
In the Gastrotheca plumbea group of Duellman, Maxson, and Jesiolowski, 1988, Copeia, 1988: 527-543. See account by Duellman and Hillis, 1987, Herpetologica, 43: 159. Almendáriz and Orcés, 2004, Politécnica, Quito, 25: 115, provided distributional data for Ecuador. 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: 397.
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