Bryophryne bakersfield Chaparro, Padial, Gutiérrez, and De la Riva, 2015

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Brachycephaloidea > Family: Strabomantidae > Subfamily: Holoadeninae > Genus: Bryophryne > Species: Bryophryne bakersfield

Bryophryne bakersfield Chaparro, Padial, Gutiérrez, and De la Riva, 2015, Zootaxa, 3994: 99. Holotype: MHNC 7972, by original designation. Type locality: "Roquerío de Lorohuachana, 3620 m a.s.l. (12° 29' 43.8"S, 72° 04' 35.9"W, . . .), Distrito de Echarate, Provincia de La Convención, Departamento Cusco, Peru". 

English Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Known from four close localities at elevations of 3506–3651 m on the Amazonian versant of the Cordillera Oriental of the Peruvian Andes, Departamento Cusco, southern Peru, in wet puna and the upper limits of elfin forest. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Peru

Endemic: Peru

Comment

Most similar to Bryophryne bustamantei, but the sister taxon of Bryophryne cophites according to the original publication. 

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