Centrolene buckleyi (Boulenger, 1882)
Hylella buckleyi Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 420. Syntypes: BMNH 78.1.25.16 (Intac), 80.12.5.201 (Pallatanga) according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 187; see comment. Type locality: "Intac" and "Paitanga" (= Pallatanga), Ecuador.
Centrolenella buckleyi — Noble, 1920, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 42: 442.
Hyla purpurea Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 267. Replacement name for Hylella buckleyi Boulenger, 1882.
Cochranella buckleyi — Taylor, 1951, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 64: 35. Rivero, 1961, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 126: 151.
Centrolenella buckleyi — Goin, 1964, Herpetologica, 20: 6.
Centrolenella buckleyi buckleyi — Rivero, 1968, Mem. Soc. Cienc. Nat. La Salle, 28: 323. By implication.
Centrolenella johnelsi Cochran and Goin, 1970, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 288: 515. Holotype: MLS 432, by original designation. Type locality: "San Pedro, north of Medellín, [Departamento] Antioquia, Colombia". Synonymy by Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 57: 8-9.
Centrolene buckleyi — Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 57: 19.
Centrolenella bruckleyi — Ayarzagüena, 1992, Publ. Asoc. Amigos Doñana, 1: xx. Incorrect subsequent spelling.
English Names
Buckley's Giant Glass Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 46).
Distribution
Andes of northern and northeastern Colombia through Ecuador to Huancabamba and Piura departments of northern Peru, 2100-3300 m elevation.
Comment
Goin, 1961, Zool. Anz., 166: 101, noted that the Pallatanga type specimen had distintegrated and the Intac type specimen could not be found. In the Centrolene prosoblepon group, according to Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 57: 1-30. Lynch and Renjifo, 2001, Guia Anf. Rept. Bogota: 39, presented a brief account and photograph. Almendáriz and Orcés, 2004, Politécnica, Quito, 25: 108-109, provided distributional data for Ecuador. Guayasamin, Bustamante, Almeida-Reinoso, and Funk, 2006, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 147: 497-500, provided an account. Cisneros-Heredia and McDiarmid, 2007, Zootaxa, 1572: 48, summarized the relevant literature and noted that the relationship with Centrolene venezuelense is unclear. See comment under Centrolene venezuelense. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 612. See note by Guayasamin and Funk, 2009, Zootaxa, 2220: 41-66, on this species at the Yanayacu Biological Station, Napo, Ecuador; these authors suggested that nominal Centrolene buckleyi may represent a species complex.
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