Teratohyla midas (Lynch and Duellman, 1973)
Centrolenella midas Lynch and Duellman, 1973, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 16: 38. Holotype: KU 123219, by original designation. Type locality: "Santa Cecilia, 340 m, Provincia Napo, Ecuador".
Cochranella midas — Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 57: 22.
Teratohyla midas — Guayasamin, Castroviejo-Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada, and Vilà, 2009, Zootaxa, 2100: 37.
English Names
Santa Cecilia Cochran Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 47).
Distribution
Amazon Basin in northeastern Ecuador, northeastern Peru, and a seemingly isolated population in French Guiana; presumably in intervening Amazonian Colombia and Brazil.
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, 2005, Check List, 1(1): 20, provided discussed the range and provided new Ecuadorian localities. Cisneros-Heredia and McDiarmid, 2007, Zootaxa, 1572: 56, discussed the species in Ecuador and noted the relevant literature. Kok and Castroviejo-Fisher, 2008, Zootaxa, 1680: 25-53, provided records for French Guiana formerly misidentified as Cochranella oyampiensis.
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