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Hyloxalus vergeli Hellmich, 1940
Hyloxalus vergeli Hellmich, 1940, Zool. Anz., 131: 122. Holotype: ZSM 110/1937 according to Glaw and Franzen, 2006, Spixiana, München, 29: 165. Type locality: "Finca El Vergel, nahe Fusagasugá, Ostkordillere Kolumbiens, rund 1800 m", Departamento Cundinamarca, Colombia.
Phyllobates vergeli — Cochran, 1966, Mem. Inst. Butantan, São Paulo, 33: 64.
Prostherapis vergeli —Dunn In Savage, 1968, Copeia, 1968: 6, by implication; Gorham, 1963, Canad. Field Nat., 77: 25.
Colostethus vergeli — Edwards, 1971, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 84: 148. Rivero and Serna, 1989 "1988", Caribb. J. Sci., 24: 141.
Hyloxalus vergeli — Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 169.
English Names
Hellmich's Rocket Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 49).
Distribution
Interandean valleys on either side of the upper and middle valley of the Río Magdalena on the western slope of the Cordillera Oriental and the eastern slop of the Cordillera Central in the departments of Cundinamarca, Huila, and Tolima, between 520 and 2100 m elevation.
Comment
See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Colostethus vergeli) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 226.
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