Sachatamia ilex (Savage, 1967)
Centrolenella ilex Savage, 1967, Copeia, 1967: 326. Holotype: LACM 25205, by original designation. Type locality: "Costa Rica: Provincia de Limón: Canton de Limón: Alta Talamanca: 16 km SW Amubri, on Río Lari, 300 m."; corrected to "14 km SW Amubri, Río Lari, Cantón de Talamanca, Provincia de Limon, 300 m" by Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 76.
Centrolene ilex — Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 57: 20.
Sachatamia ilex — Guayasamin, Castroviejo-Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada, and Vilà, 2009, Zootaxa, 2100: 36.
English Names
Limon Giant Glass Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 46).
Distribution
Caribbean slopes of eastern Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, to western Colombia, and the Chocoan forest of western Ecuador, 60-1420 m elevation; Pacific drainage of central Costa Rica in the caldera of the Río Grande de Tárcoles.
Comment
The Colombian population may represent a distinct species according to C.W. Myers In Duellman and Burrowes, 1989, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 132: 1-14. In the Centrolene prosoblepon group, according to Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 57: 1-30. See account (as Centrolenella ilex) by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 360-361. Guayasamin, Cisneros-Heredia, Yánez-Muñoz, and Bustamante, 2006, Check List, 2(1): 70-75, discussed the range and provided Ecuadorian localities. Cisneros-Heredia and McDiarmid, 2007, Zootaxa, 1572: 53-54, discussed the species in Ecuador and provided access to the relevant literature. Kubicki, 2007, Glass Frogs Costa Rica: 84-97, provided an account and detailed range map for Costa Rica (as Centrolenella ilex). See comments by Sunyer, Páiz, Dehling, and Köhler, 2009, Herpetol. Notes, 2: 189-202, regarding Nicaraguan populations.
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