Alsodes valdiviensis Formas, Cuevas, and Brieva, 2002

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Alsodidae > Genus: Alsodes > Species: Alsodes valdiviensis

Alsodes valdiviensis Formas, Cuevas, and Brieva, 2002, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 115: 709. Holotype: IZUA 3202, by original designation; destroyed by fire on 3 December 2007. Type locality: "Cerro Mirador (40° 08′ S, 73° 40′ W; 1100 m altitude) 60 km W la Unión (by road) Provincia Valdivia, Región de Los Lagos" Chile.

English Names

Pelada Mountain Spiny Chest Frog (Rabanal, Correa-Quezada, and Gargiulo, 2022, Rev. Latinoam. Herpetol., 5: 54). 

Distribution

Cordillera Pelada in Nothofagus forest, Región de Los Ríos, and Isla Grande de Chiloé, Región de Los Lagos, Valdivia Province, Chile.

Comment

In the Alsodes monticola group according to the original publication. See Lobos, Vidal-Maldonado, Correa-Quezada, Labra-Lillo, Díaz-Páez, Charrier, Rabanal, Díaz-Vidal, and Tala, 2013, Anf. Chile Conserv. 1–104, for photograph, comments on conservation status, and range. Rabanal, Correa-Quezada, and Gargiulo, 2022, Rev. Latinoam. Herpetol., 5: 54–64, reported a specimen from Isla Grande de Chiloé, southern Chile. 

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