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Hypodactylus peraccai (Lynch, 1975)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Craugastoridae > Genus: Hypodactylus

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Phrynopus peraccai Lynch, 1975, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 35: 30. Holotype: USNM 160947, by original designation. Type locality: "1 km W Papallacta, Napo Prov., Ecuador, 3155 m".

"Phrynopus" peraccai — Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104: 10094. Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: 4.

Isodactylus peraccai — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 108.

Hypodactylus peraccai — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1795: 67-68.

English Names

Peracca's Andes Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 83).

Distribution

Vicinity of Papallacta, Napo Province, Ecuador, 3000-3350 m elev.

Comment

Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104: 10092-10097, removed this species from nominal Phrynopus but did not provide a new generic name; see comment under Hypodactylus.

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