Rulyrana flavopunctata (Lynch and Duellman, 1973)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Centrolenidae > Subfamily: Centroleninae > Genus: Rulyrana > Species: Rulyrana flavopunctata

Centrolenella flavopunctata Lynch and Duellman, 1973, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 16: 25. Holotype: KU 121048, by original designation. Type locality: "Mera, Provincia Pastaza, Ecuador".

Cochranella flavopunctataRuiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 57: 22.

Rulyrana flavopunctataGuayasamin, Castroviejo-Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada, and Vilà, 2009, Zootaxa, 2100: 34.

English Names

Yellow-spotted Cochran Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 47).

Yellow-spotted Glassfrog (Guayasamin, Cisneros-Heredia, McDiarmid, Peña, and Hutter, 2020, Diversity, 12 (222): 210). 

Distribution

Lower Amazonian slopes of eastern Andes in Ecuador and Colombia (Boyacá, Casanare, Meta, Caquetá, and Norte de Santander), 300–1850 m elevation, possibly into adjacent northern Peru and extreme southwestern Venezuela.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia, Ecuador

Comment

In the Cochranella ocellata group according to Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 57: 1–30. Placed in the Cochranella spinosa group by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 365. Cisneros-Heredia and McDiarmid, 2007, Zootaxa, 1572: 51, summarized the relevant literature. Cisneros-Heredia, 2009, Check List, 5: 912–916, discussed the range and suggested that this species may be found in adjacent northern Peru. Acosta-Galvis, 2017, Biota Colomb., 18: 282–315, reported the species from the Municipality of Yopal, Casanare Department, Colombia, and described vocalizations and habitat. Meza-Joya, Chinchilla-Lemus, Ramos, Armesto, and Acevedo-Rincón, 2019, Herpetol. Notes, 12: 61–69, provided new Colombian localities and discussed the range (including a species-wide dot map). Guayasamin, Cisneros-Heredia, McDiarmid, Peña, and Hutter, 2020, Diversity, 12 (222): 210–214, provided a detailed account, including adult morphology, advertisement call, relationships, natural history, and conservation status and who suggested that Rulyrana mcdiarmidi might be a geographical variant of this taxon. Camper, Torres-Carvajal, Ron, Nilsson, Arteaga-Navarro, Knowles, and Arbogast, 2021, Check List, 17: 729–751, provided a record from Wildsumaco Wildlife Sanctuary, Napo Province, Ecuador.  Mendoza-Henao, Duarte-Marín, and Rada, 2021, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 15 (2: e286): 156–171, reported on the advertisement call.  

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