Dendropsophus carnifex (Duellman, 1969)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Dendropsophus > Species: Dendropsophus carnifex

Hyla carnifex Duellman, 1969, Herpetologica, 25: 242. Holotype: KU 117993, by original designation. Type locality: "Tandapi (formerly known as Corneja Astorga, 0° 24′ S, 78° 51′ W), Provincia Pichincha, Ecuador, 1460 m".

Dendropsophus carnifexFaivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 90.

English Names

Executioner Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 54).

Executioner Clownfrog (Arteaga-Navarro, Bustamante, and Guayasamin, 2013, Amph. Rept. Mindo: 104). 

Hangman Swamp Frog (Freile, Coloma, Terán-Valdez, Acosta-López, Tapia, and Pazmiño-Otamendi, 2020, Anfibios de Junín: 62).

Distribution

Elevations of 1250 to 2500 m on the Pacific slopes of Andes in northern Ecuador, from Carchi to Cotopaxi Provinces; possibly into extreme southern Andean Colombia. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ecuador

Likely/Controversially Present: Colombia

Endemic: Ecuador

Comment

See comment under Dendropsophus bogertiDe la Riva, Márquez, and Bosch, 1997, Bonn. Zool. Beitr., 47: 175–185, reported on the call. In the Dendropsophus columbianus group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 90. Arteaga-Navarro, Bustamante, and Guayasamin, 2013, Amph. Rept. Mindo: 104–106, provided an account and dot map. See Freile, Coloma, Terán-Valdez, Acosta-López, Tapia, and Pazmiño-Otamendi, 2020, Anfibios de Junín: 62–63, for brief account for Junín, Ecuador (identification, tadpole, call, habitat, range, and photograph). In the Dendropsophus columbianus group of Orrico, Grant, Faivovich, Rivera-Correa, Rada, Lyra, Cassini, Valdujo, Schargel, Machado, Wheeler, Barrio-Amorós, Loebmann, Moravec, Zina, Solé, Sturaro, Peloso, Suárez, and Haddad, 2021, Cladistics, 37: 73–105. 

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