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"Centrolene" fernandoi Duellman and Schulte, 1993

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Centrolenidae > Subfamily: Centroleninae

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Centrolene fernandoi Duellman and Schulte, 1993, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 155: 4. Holotype: KU 211770, by original designation. Type locality: "west slope of Abra Tangarana, 7 km (by road) northeast of San Juan de Pacaysapa (06° 12′S, 76° 44′ W, 1080 m), Provincia Lamas, Departamento San Martín, Perú".

"Centrolene" fernandoi — Guayasamin, Castroviejo-Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada, and Vilà, 2009, Zootaxa, 2100: 55.

English Names

Fernando's Giant Glass Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 46).

Distribution

Known only from the type locality (Departamento San Martín, Peru).

Comment

In the Centrolene prosoblepon group according to the original publication, most similar to Centrolene audax. 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: 208. Guayasamin, Castroviejo-Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada, and Vilà, 2009, Zootaxa, 2100: 55, considered this species as incertae sedis within Centroleninae.

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