Sachatamia albomaculata (Taylor, 1949)
Centrolenella albomaculata Taylor, 1949, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 33: 267. Holotype: KU 23814, by original designation. Type locality: "Los Diamantes, one mile south of Guápiles, [Cantón de Pococí, Provincia Limón,] Costa Rica". Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 90, commented on the type locality.
Cochranella albomaculata — Taylor, 1951, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 64: 35. Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 57: 21.
Centrolenella albomarginata — Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 90. Error for Centrolenella albomaculata.
Sachatamia albomaculata — Guayasamin, Castroviejo-Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada, and Vilà, 2009, Zootaxa, 2100: 36.
English Names
White-spotted Cochran Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 46).
Distribution
Caribbean slopes of Costa Rica and Pacific slopes of Costa Rica and Panama through western Colombia to Chocoan northwestern Ecuador, 420-800 m elevation; reported from Tulito area, Colón Department, Honduras.
Comment
In the Cochranella ocellata group according to Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 57: 1-30. Placed in the Cochranella spinosa group by Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1995, Lozania, 62: 1-23. See O'Shea, 1986, Herpetol. Rev., 17: 49, for Honduran record. Köhler, 1999, Cour. Forschungsinst. Senckenb., 213: 17, suggested that this taxon would be found in eastern Nicaragua. Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 364, and McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras: 207-211, provided accounts. Guayasamin, Cisneros-Heredia, Yánez-Muñoz, and Bustamante, 2006, Check List, 2(1): 70-75, discussed the range and provided new Ecuadorian records. McCranie, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 37, detailed the departmental distribution in Honduras. Cisneros-Heredia and McDiarmid, 2007, Zootaxa, 1572: 42, suggested that more than one species masquerades under this species name. Kubicki, 2007, Glass Frogs Costa Rica: 114-124, provided an account and detailed range map for Costa Rica. See comments by Sunyer, Páiz, Dehling, and Köhler, 2009, Herpetol. Notes, 2: 189-202, regarding Nicaraguan populations. Ortega-Andrade, Bermingham, Aulestia, and Paucar, 2010, Check List, 6: 122, reported the species in Esmeraldas Province, northwestern Ecuador.
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