Telmatobius cirrhacelis Trueb, 1979
Telmatobius cirrhacelis Trueb, 1979, Copeia, 1979: 715. Holotype: KU 165991, by original designation. Type locality: "13 km E Loja (Abra de Zamora), 2850 m, Provincia Loja, Ecuador (latitude 03° 59′ S, longitude 79° 08′ W)".
English Names
Loja Water Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 84).
Distribution
Vicinity of the type locality in Loja Province, Ecuador.
Comment
See Merino-Viteri, Coloma, and Almendáriz, 2005, in Lavilla and De la Riva (eds.), Monogr. Herpetol., 7: 9-37, for summary of biology and conservation and who reported that this species has not been collected since 1987. 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: 412.
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