Nymphargus oreonympha (Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Centrolenidae > Subfamily: Centroleninae > Genus: Nymphargus > Species: Nymphargus oreonympha

Cochranella oreonympha Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 60: 7. Holotype: ICN 20765, by original designation. Type locality: "Departamento del Caquetà, municipio de Florencia, 31-8.6 km E Alto Gabinete, vertiente oriental Cordillera Oriental de Colombia, 1° 53′ latitud N, 75° 41′ W de Greenwich, 2040—2270 m", Colombia.

Nymphargus oreonymphaCisneros-Heredia and McDiarmid, 2007, Zootaxa, 1572: 35.

English Names

Caqueta Cochran Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 47).

Distribution

Eastern slope of the Cordillera Oriental in the Department of Caquetá, Colombia, 2040-2270 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia

Endemic: Colombia

Comment

In the Cochranella ocellata group according to the original publication. Mendoza-Henao, Duarte-Marín, and Rada, 2021, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 15 (2: e286): 156–171, reported on the advertisement call. 

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