Hyloscirtus caucanus (Ardila-Robayo, Ruiz-Carranza, and Roa-Trujillo, 1993)
Hyla caucana Ardila-Robayo, Ruiz-Carranza, and Roa-Trujillo, 1993, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 18: 560. Holotype: ICN 7071, by original designation. Type locality: "Colombia, Departamento de Cauca, Municipio de Páez (Bealcázar), km 34.5 carretera Belalcázar at Tacueyó, hacienda Montenegro, flanco oriental de la Cordillera Central, 2° 50′ latitud N, 76° 4′ longitud W de Greenwich; 2400 m."
Hyloscirtus caucanus — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 85.
Boana caucana — Wiens, Fetzner, Parkinson, and Reeder, 2005, Syst. Biol., 54: 743. by implication.
English Names
Cauca Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 54).
Distribution
Cloud forests on the eastern slope of the central Andes at elevations of 2400-2720 m, Department of Cauca, Colombia.
Comment
In the Hyla larinopygion group according to the original publication. In the Hyloscirtus larinopygion group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 85. See comments in Mueses-Cisneros and Anganoy-Criollo, 2008, Pap. Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 48: 129-138. In Hyloscirtus species group B of Sánchez, 2010, Copeia, 2010: 351-363.
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