Nymphargus Cisneros-Heredia and McDiarmid, 2007

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Centrolenidae > Subfamily: Centroleninae > Genus: Nymphargus
43 species

Nymphargus Cisneros-Heredia and McDiarmid, 2007, Zootaxa, 1572: 34. Type species: Nymphargus cochranae (Goin, 1961) [= Cochranella cochranae Goin, 1961], by original designation.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Western Andean slopes of Colombia and Ecuador and the eastern Andean slopes of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia

Comment

Velásquez-Álvarez, Rada, Sánchez-Pacheco, and Acosta-Galvis, 2007, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 2: 191-197, summarized the known ranges of the species of Nymphargus. Guayasamin, Castroviejo-Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada, and Vilà, 2009, Zootaxa, 2100: 1-97, redelimited the taxon and reported on phylogenetics.

Contained taxa (43 sp.):

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