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Hyloscirtus pacha (Duellman and Hillis, 1990)

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

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Hyla pacha Duellman and Hillis, 1990, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 134: 5. Holotype: KU 202762, by original designation. Type locality: "11.2 km (by road) west-southwest of Plan de Milagro (03° 03′ S, 78° 08′ W), 2350 m, Provincia de Morona-Santiago, Ecuador".

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

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

English Names

Morona-Santiago Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 57).

Distribution

Known only from two streams at elevations of 2225 and 2350 m on the Amazonian slopes of the Cordillera Oriental in the Province of Morona-Santiago, Ecuador.

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.

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