Nymphargus grandisonae (Cochran and Goin, 1970)
Centrolenella grandisonae Cochran and Goin, 1970, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 288: 513. Holotype: BMNH 1910.7.11.68, by original designation. Type locality: "Pueblo Rico, [Departamento] Caldas, southwestern Colombia, 5000 feet altitude".
Centrolene grandisonae — Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 57: 19.
Nymphargus grandisonae — Guayasamin, Castroviejo-Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada, and Vilà, 2009, Zootaxa, 2100: 28.
English Names
Giant Glass Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 46).
Distribution
Pacific slopes of Andes in Ecuador; in Colombia on the western slope of the Cordillera Occidental (from 7° 20′ N), the western slope of the Cordillera Central (4° 40′—7° N), 1230-2170 m elevation in cloud forest.
Comment
As used by Lynch and Duellman, 1973, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 16: 1-66, this name applies to the species currently recognized as Centrolenella lynchi; see Duellman, 1980, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., 83: 26-32. In the Centrolene prosoblepon group according to Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 57: 1-30. Cisneros-Heredia and McDiarmid, 2007, Zootaxa, 1572: 52, discussed the species in Ecuador and provided access to the relevant literature.
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