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Nymphargus chancas (Duellman and Schulte, 1993)
Cochranella chancas Duellman and Schulte, 1993, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 155: 16. Holotype: KU 211778, by original designation. Type locality: "west slope of Abra Tangarana, 7 km (by road) northeast of San Juan de Pacaysapa (06° 12′S, 76° 44′W, 1080 m), Provincia Lamas, Departamento San Martín, Perú".
Nymphargus chancas — Cisneros-Heredia and McDiarmid, 2007, Zootaxa, 1572: 34.
English Names
Peru Cochran Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 46).
Distribution
Throughout northern Departamento San Martín, Peru, at elevations over 1000 m, extending into southern Ecuador, where it was collected between 1256–1430 m.
Comment
In the Cochranella ocellata group according to the original publication. Twomey, Delia, and Castroviejo-Fisher, 2014, Zootaxa, 3851: 46–47, provided new records for Peru and life history data.
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