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Hyloscirtus larinopygion (Duellman, 1973)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Hyloscirtus

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Hyla larinopygion Duellman, 1973, Herpetologica, 29: 224. Holotype: KU 144127, by original designation. Type locality: "Quebrada Santa Tereza, between Popayán and Quintana, Departamento Cauca, Colombia, 2200 m".

Hyloscirtus larinopygion — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 85.

Boana larinopygion — Wiens, Fetzner, Parkinson, and Reeder, 2005, Syst. Biol., 54: 743. by implication.

English Names

Cordillera Central Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 56).

Distribution

Eastern slope of the Nudo del Pasto and eastern slope of the Western Andes in the departments of Risaralda, Putumayo, and Valle del Cauca, Colombia, 1950-3100 m elevation; in adjacent northern Ecuador in Imbabura and Carchi provinces).

Comment

See comment under Hyloscirtus psarolaimus. Ecuador record pers. comm. from Luis Coloma. In the Hyloscirtus larinopygion group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 85. Mueses-Cisneros, 2005, Caldasia, 27: 233, provided a record for Putumayo, Colombia. See comments in Mueses-Cisneros and Anganoy-Criollo, 2008, Pap. Avulsos Zool., Săo Paulo, 48: 129-138. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 616. In Hyloscirtus species group B of Sánchez, 2010, Copeia, 2010: 351-363.

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