Niceforonia peraccai (Lynch, 1975)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Brachycephaloidea > Family: Strabomantidae > Subfamily: Hypodactylinae > Genus: Niceforonia > Species: Niceforonia peraccai

Phrynopus peraccai Lynch, 1975, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 35: 30. Holotype: USNM 160947, by original designation. Type locality: "1 km W Papallacta, Napo Prov., Ecuador, 3155 m".

"Phrynopus" peraccaiHeinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104: 10094; Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: 4.

Isodactylus peraccaiHedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 108.

Hypodactylus peraccaiHedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1795: 67-68.

Niceforonia peraccai — Acosta-Galvis, Streicher, Manuelli, Cuddy, and de Sá, 2018, Zootaxa, 4514: 494. 

English Names

Peracca's Andes Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 83).

Distribution

Vicinity of Papallacta, Napo Province, Ecuador, 3000-3350 m elev.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ecuador

Endemic: Ecuador

Comment

Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104: 10092-10097, removed this species from nominal Phrynopus but did not provide a new generic name; see comment under Hypodactylus.

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