Osteocephalus mutabor Jungfer and Hödl, 2002

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Osteocephalus > Species: Osteocephalus mutabor

Osteocephalus mutabor Jungfer and Hödl, 2002, Amphibia-Reptilia, 23: 34. Holotype: EPN H-6658, by original designation. Type locality: "Ecuador: Provincia Napo: South slope of Volcan Sumaco on rio Pucuno, 1000 m a.s.l., between Guamani and Guagua Sumaco (0° 42′ 24″ S/77° 35′ 54″ W)".

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Low to intermediate elevations on the western Andean foothills of Ecuador to Balta, Departamento Ucuyali, and Loreto, Peru.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ecuador, Peru

Comment

Previously confused with Osteocephalus leprieurii according to the original publication. Cisneros-Heredia, 2007, Herpetozoa, Wien, 19: 183, provided a record from 54 km east of the type locality. In the Osteocephalus buckleyi species group of Jungfer, Faivovich, Padial, Castroviejo-Fisher, Lyra, Berneck, Iglesias, Kok, MacCulloch, Rodrigues, Verdade, Torres-Gastello, Chaparro, Valdujo, Reichle, Moravec, Gvoždík, Gagliardi-Urrutia, Ernst, De la Riva, Means, Lima, Señaris, Wheeler, and Haddad, 2013, Zool. Scripta, 42: 351-380. Forti, Foratto, Márquez, Pereira, and Toledo, 2018, PeerJ, 6(e4813): 1–19, characterized the advertisement call. Metcalf, Marsh, Torres Pacaya, Graham, and Gunnels, 2020, Herpetol. Notes, 13: 753–767, reported the species from the Santa Cruz Forest Reserve, Loreto, northeastern Peru. Gagliardi-Urrutia, García Dávila, Jaramillo-Martinez, Rojas-Padilla, Rios-Alva, Aguilar-Manihuari, Pérez-Peña, Castroviejo-Fisher, Simões, Estivals, Guillen Huaman, Castro Ruiz, Angulo Chávez, Mariac, Duponchelle, and Renno, 2022, Anf. Loreto: 114–115, provided a brief account, photograph, dot map, and genetic barcode for Loreto, Peru.

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