"Centrolene" medemi (Cochran and Goin, 1970)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Centrolenidae > Subfamily: Centroleninae > Species: "Centrolene" medemi

Centrolenella medemi Cochran and Goin, 1970, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 288: 511. Holotype: USNM 152277, by original designation. Type locality: "Puerto Asís, upper Río Putumayo, [Comisaria] Putumayo, Colombia".

Centrolene medemiRuiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 57: 20.

"Centrolene" medemiGuayasamin, Castroviejo-Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada, and Vilà, 2009, Zootaxa, 2100: 57.

English Names

Medem [sic] Giant Glass Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 46).

Medem's Glassfrog (Guayasamin, Cisneros-Heredia, McDiarmid, Peña, and Hutter, 2020, Diversity, 12 (222): 56). 

Distribution

Amazonian slopes of the Cordillera Oriental of Ecuador (Volcán Reventador, Napo Province) at 1490 m elevation; eastern and western slopes of the Cordillera Oriental of Colombia in the departments of Caquetá (municipalities of Florencia and San Vicente del Caguán), Putumayo (municipality of Puerto Asís) and Tolima (Municipality of Icononzo), 790 to 1655 m elevation

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia, Ecuador

Comment

In the Centrolene geckoideum group according to Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 57: 1-30. Ruiz-Carranza, Ardila-Robayo, and Lynch, 1996, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 20: 370, rejected records from Amazonia. Suárez-Mayorga, 1999, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 23: 395-405, rediagnosed the species. Guayasamin, Cisneros-Heredia, Yánez-Muñoz, and Bustamante, 2006, Check List, 2(1): 70-75, discussed the range and provided new records for Ecuador. Cisneros-Heredia and McDiarmid, 2007, Zootaxa, 1572: 56, discussed the species in Ecuador and provided access to the relevant literature. Guayasamin, Castroviejo-Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada, and Vilà, 2009, Zootaxa, 2100: 57, regarded this species as incertae sedis within Centroleninae. Guayasamin, Cisneros-Heredia, McDiarmid, Peña, and Hutter, 2020, Diversity, 12 (222): 56–58, provided a detailed account, including adult morphology, natural history, and conservation status. Díaz-Ricaurte and Rada, 2020, Catal. Anf. Rept. Colombia, Medellín, 6: 15–19, provided a detailed account including an extensive literature review and provided photographs and map for Colombia. 

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