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"Cochranella" geijskesi (Goin, 1966)

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

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Centrolenella geijskesi Goin, 1966, Stud. Fauna Suriname and other Guyanas, 8: 77. Holotype: RMNH 11041, by original designation. Type locality: "at about 200 meters altitude on the south slope of the Wilhelmina Mountains, District Nickerie, Suriname".

Cochranella geijskesi — Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 57: 22.

"Cochranella" geijskesi — Guayasamin, Castroviejo-Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada, and Vilà, 2009, Zootaxa, 2100: 56.

English Names

Wilhelmina Cochran Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 47).

Distribution

Known only from central Surinam, from the type locality (Wilhelmina Mountains) and from Raleighvalley.

Comment

In the Cochranella ocellata group according to Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 57: 1-30. Placed in the Cochranella spinosa group by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 365. Guayasamin, Castroviejo-Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada, and Vilà, 2009, Zootaxa, 2100: 56, regarded this species as incertae sedis within Centroleninae. See account for Surinam population by Ouboter and Jairam, 2012, Amph. Suriname: 74-75.

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