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Rhinella festae (Peracca, 1904)
Atelopus festae Peracca, 1904, Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. Comp. Univ. Torino, 19 (465): 18. Syntypes: MZUT (2 specimens) according to original publication; MZUT 2903 (Gualaquiza) and 2904 (Valle Santiago), according to Hoogmoed, 1985, In Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 75. Type locality: "Valle Santiago" (= lower Río Zamora, according to Peters, 1955, Rev. Ecuat. Entomol. Parsitol., 2: 348) and "Gualaquiza", Morona-Santiago Province, Ecuador.
Rhamphophryne festae — Trueb, 1971, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 216: 6.
Rhinella festae — Chaparro, Pramuk, and Gluesenkamp, 2007, Herpetologica, 63: 211. by implication
Rhinella (Rhamphophryne) festae — Pramuk, Robertson, Sites, and Noonan, 2008, Global Ecol. Biogeograph., 17: 76.
English Names
Valle Santiago Beaked Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 45).
Distribution
Moderate and low elevations (200–700 m) on the Atlantic Andean slopes and upper Amazon Basin of Ecuador; 1700 m in the Cordillera de Cutucú and Cordillera del Condor, Ecuador and adjacent Peru.
Comment
Duellman and Lynch, 1988, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 140: 125–142, provided the Cordillera de Cutucú, Ecuador record (as Rhamphophryne festae). See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status (as Rhamphophryne festae) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 612. In the Rhinella festae species group of Moravec, Lehr, Cusi, Córdova, and Gvoždík, 2014, ZooKeys, 371: 53.
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