Gastrotheca dendronastes Duellman, 1983

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hemiphractidae > Genus: Gastrotheca > Species: Gastrotheca dendronastes

Gastrotheca dendronastes Duellman, 1983, Copeia, 1983: 868. Holotype: KU 169381, by original designation. Type locality: "Río Calima, 1.5 km (by road) west of Lago Calima, 1,230 m, Departamento Valle del Cauca, Colombia (0° 55′ N, 76° 11′ W)".

Gastrotheca (Opisthodelphys) dendronastesDubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 31

Gastrotheca (Amphignathodon) dendronastes — Duellman, 2015, Marsupial Frogs: 169. Incorrectly attributed to Dubois, 1987 "1986". 

Amphignathodon dendronastes — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 431.

English Names

Rio Calima Marsupial Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 53).

Distribution

Pacific slopes of Andes in southern Colombia (Antioquia, Risaralda, Chocó, Valle de Cauca, and Cauca) as well as an isolated population on the eastern slopes of the Central Cordillera in Caldas (Colombia), 1230–2090 m elevation; isolated record in Pichinca Province in northern Ecuador.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia, Ecuador

Comment

In the Gastrotheca ovifera group of Duellman, Maxson, and Jesiolowski, 1988, Copeia, 1988: 527–543. Gutiérrez-Cárdenas and Barrientos, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 474–475, provided a record from the Cordillera Central of Antioquia Department, Colombia, and discussed the range in Colombia. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 395. In the Gastrotheca longipes group of Castroviejo-Fisher, Padial, De la Riva, Pombal, Silva, Rojas-Runjaic, Medina-Méndez, and Frost, 2015, Zootaxa, 4004: 1–72. See account by Duellman, 2015, Marsupial Frogs: 169–172. 

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