Cochranella ritae (Lutz, 1952)
Centrolene ritae Lutz In Lutz and Kloss, 1952, Mem. Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, 50: 658. Types: Formerly in MNRJ, now destroyed according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 195. Type locality: "Benjamin Constant, Alto Solimões", Estado do Amazonas, Brazil.
Centrolenella ritae — Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: ix, 195.
Cochranella ritae — Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 57: 23.
"Cochranella" ritae — Guayasamin, Castroviejo-Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada, and Vilà, 2009, Zootaxa, 2100: 58.
English Names
Rita's Cochran Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 47).
Distribution
Known only from the type locality (Amazonas, Brazil); presumably in adjacent Peru and Colombia.
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. See comment under Cochranella resplendens. Guayasamin, Castroviejo-Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada, and Vilà, 2009, Zootaxa, 2100: 39, suggested that this is a likely senior synonym of Vitreorana oyampiensis.
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