Rulyrana orejuela (Duellman and Burrowes, 1989)
Centrolenella orejuela Duellman and Burrowes, 1989, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 132: 5. Holotype: KU 145081, by original designation. Type locality: "between El Tambo and La Costa, 800 m, Departamento de Cauca, Colombia".
Cochranella orejuela — Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 57: 22.
"Cochranella" orejuela — Guayasamin, Castroviejo-Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada, and Vilà, 2009, Zootaxa, 2100: 57.
Teratohyla sornozai Cisneros-Heredia, Yánez-Muñoz, and Ortega-Andrade, 2009, Zootaxa, 2227: 54. Holotype: DHMECN3522, by original designation. Type locality: ""a small stream tributary of Río Naranjal (00° 21′05″ N, 78° 55′ 01″ W, 750 m elevation), cantón Cotacachi, provincia de Imbabura, República del Ecuador". Synonymy by Cisneros-Heredia, Yánez-Muñoz, and Ortega-Andrade, 2011 "2010", Avanc. Cienc. Ingen., Quito, Secc. B,, 2 (3) : B3-B4.
"Cochranella" orejuela — Guayasamin, Castroviejo-Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada, and Vilà, 2009, Zootaxa, 2100: 57. Removal from a monophyletic Cochranella.
Rulyrana orejuela — Cisneros-Heredia, Yánez-Muñoz, and Ortega-Andrade, 2009, Zootaxa, 2227: 56. Cisneros-Heredia, Yánez-Muñoz, and Ortega-Andrade, 2011 "2010", Avanc. Cienc. Ingen., Quito, Secc. B,, 2 (3): B3. Generic assignment without presentation of evidence.
English Names
El Tambo Cochran Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 47).
Distribution
Lower humid montane forest at elevations of 500 and 1250 m on the Pacific versant of the Western Andes in southern Colombia (1° 10′ N—4° N) and on the Pacific Andean slopes of northwestern Ecuador (Pichincha and Imbabura Provinces), 600-1200 m elevation.
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. Cisneros-Heredia and McDiarmid, 2007, Zootaxa, 1572: 56, discussed the species in Ecuador and noted the relevant literature. Yánez-Muñoz and Cisneros-Heredia, 2008, Check List, 4: 50-54, provided a number of records from Ecuador. Guayasamin, Castroviejo-Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada, and Vilà, 2009, Zootaxa, 2100: 57, considered this species as incertae sedis within Centroleninae and not part of a monophyletic Cochranella. Cisneros-Heredia, Yánez-Muñoz, and Ortega-Andrade, 2011 "2010", Avanc. Cienc. Ingen., Quito, Secc. B,, 2 (3): B3, considered this species to be in Rulyrana without discussion.
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