Hyloxalus elachyhistus (Edwards, 1971)
Colostethus elachyhistus Edwards, 1971, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 84: 149. Holotype: KU 120540, by original designation. Type locality: "Loja, Loja Province, Ecuador, 2150 m". See comment regarding type locality by Rivero and Almendáriz, 1992 "1991", Politecnica, Quito, 16: 117.
Hyloxalus elachyhistus — Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 168.
English Names
Loja Rocket Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 48).
Distribution
Pacific slopes of the Andes in southern Ecuador (850-2760 m); Amazonian slopes of the Andes in southern Ecuador and in northern Peru in the Huancabamba Depression (1800-2000 m) and south to Cajabamba, Cajamarca.
Comment
See account on Peruvian specimens by Duellman and Wild, 1993, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 157: 1-53. See account by Coloma, 1995, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 87: 28-29, who noted that Hyloxalus elachyhistus, Hyloxalus infraguttatus, and Hyloxalus vertebralis might prove to intergrade. Duellman, 2004, Sci. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Univ. Kansas, 35: 18-21, provided an account. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Colostethus elachyhistus) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 222. Koch, Venegas, and Rödder, 2011, Salamandra, 47: 116-119, reported on the advertisement call.
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