Trachycephalus macrotis (Andersson, 1945)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Trachycephalus > Species: Trachycephalus macrotis

Hyla macrotis Andersson, 1945, Ark. Zool., 37A(2): 70. Holotype: NHRM 1958, according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 155. Type locality: "Rio Pastaza, Watershed", eastern Ecuador. Synonymy with Rana venulosa Laurenti, 1768, by Duellman, 1971, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 4: 11.

Trachycephalus macrotisRon, Venegas, Ortega-Andrade, Gagliardi-Urrutia, and Salerno, 2016, ZooKeys, 630: 116. 

English Names

Amazonian Milk Frog (Villacampa-Ortega, Serrano-Rojas, and Whitworth, 2017, Amph. Manu Learning Cent.: 210).

Distribution

Amazonian Ecuador and adjacent northeastern Peru; possibly much more widespread in Amazonia. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ecuador, Peru

Comment

 Ron, Venegas, Ortega-Andrade, Gagliardi-Urrutia, and Salerno, 2016, ZooKeys, 630: 115–154, reidentified all Amazonian specimens formerly identified as Trachycephalus typhonius from Ecuador as Trachycephalus macrotis. See brief account for the Manu region, Peru, by Villacampa-Ortega, Serrano-Rojas, and Whitworth, 2017, Amph. Manu Learning Cent.: 210–211, although it is not clear that the species is present in that part of Peru (DRF). 

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