Centrolene lynchi (Duellman, 1980)
Centrolenella lynchi Duellman, 1980, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., 83: 29. Holotype: KU 164691, by original designation. Type locality: "a stream 4 km northeast (by road) of Dos Ríos, Provincia Pichincha, Ecuador, 1140 m (00° 21′ S, 78° 54′ W)".
Centrolene lynchi — Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 57: 20.
English Names
Lynch's Giant Glass Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 46).
Distribution
Elevations of 1100-1800 m on the Pacific slopes of the western Andes in Ecuador (provinces of Pichincha and Cotopaxi); western slope of the Cordillera Occidental in the Departamento de Risaralda, Colombia, at 1480 m elevation.
Comment
See comment under Centrolenella grandisonae. In the Centrolene peristictum group according to Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 57: 1-30. Cisneros-Heredia and McDiarmid, 2007, Zootaxa, 1572: 54, discussed the species in Ecuador and provided access to the relevant literature. See comments under Centrolene peristictum, Centrolene scirtetes, and Centrolene gemmatum. 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: 210. Catenazzi, Von May, Lehr, Gagliardi-Urrutia, and Guayasamin, 2012, Zootaxa, 3388: 64, confirmed the placement of this species in Centrolene.
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