Gastrotheca psychrophila Duellman, 1974
Gastrotheca psychrophila Duellman, 1974, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 22: 15. Holotype: KU 120760, by original designation. Type locality: "ridge between Loja and Zamora, 2850 m, 13-14 km E (by road) of Loja, Provincia Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador".
Gastrotheca (Duellmania) psychrophila — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 33.
English Names
Ridge Marsupial Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 53).
Distribution
Limited region at an elevation of 2750-2850 m on a ridge, the Abra de Zamora, between Loja and Zamora, in the Cordillera Oriental in southern Ecuador.
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: 116-117, 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: 398.
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