Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Centrolenella balionota Duellman, 1981, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 88: 1. Holotype: KU 164702, by original designation. Type locality: "3.5 km (by road) northeast of Mindo, 1540 m, Provincia de Pichincha, Ecuador (00° 01′ S,78° 44′ W)".

Cochranella balionota — Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 57: 21.

Centrolene balionotum — Cisneros-Heredia and McDiarmid, 2006, Zootaxa, 1244: 1.

"Cochranella" balionota — Guayasamin, Castroviejo-Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada, and Vilà, 2009, Zootaxa, 2100: 23.

English Names

Mindo Cochran Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 46).

Distribution

Pacific Andean slopes between 1400 and 1540 m elevation in the provinces of Carchi and Pichinca, Ecuador, and on the Western Andes at La Costa, 800 m, Departamento Cauca, Colombia.

Comment

In the Cochranella ocellata group according to Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 57: 1-30. Transferred from Cochranella to Centrolene by Cisneros-Heredia and McDiarmid, 2006, Zootaxa, 1244: 1-32. Cisneros-Heredia and McDiarmid, 2007, Zootaxa, 1572: 48, summarized the relevant literature. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Cochranella balionota) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 213. Guayasamin, Castroviejo-Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada, and Vilà, 2009, Zootaxa, 2100: 54, regarded this species as incertae sedis within Centroleninae.

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