Phyllonastes worleyae (Reyes-Puig, Maynard, Trageser, Vieira, Hamilton, Lynch, Culebras, Kohn, Brito, and Guayasamin, 2020)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Brachycephaloidea > Family: Craugastoridae > Subfamily: Holoadeninae > Genus: Phyllonastes > Species: Phyllonastes worleyae

Noblella worleyae Reyes-Puig, Maynard, Trageser, Vieira, Hamilton, Lynch, Culebras, Kohn, Brito-M., and Guayasamin, 2020, Neotropical Biodiversity, 6: 164. Holotype: ZSFQ 551, by original designation. Type locality: "Río Manduriacu Reserve (0.312057°N, 78.854330°W; 1184 m, . . . ), Cantón Cotacachi, Imbabura Province", Ecuador. Zoobank publication registration: 04BB1FF5-A8BD-43E4-BE10-F2BE767ACFE3

Phyllonastes worleyae — von May, Diaz, Ttito, Santa-Cruz Farfan, and Catenazzi, 2024, Diversity, 16 (613): 9. 

Common Names

Worley's Leaf Frog (original publication). 

Worley's Litter Frog (Noblella worleyiColoma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 3: xxxii).

Cutín de Worley (Noblella worleyiColoma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 3: xxxii).

Distribution

Western slops of the Cordillera Occidental in Imbabura Province, Ecuador, 1128 to 1795 m elevation. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ecuador

Endemic: Ecuador

Comment

The generic assignment of this species was controversial, given the mtDNA tree, according to the original publication. Reyes-Puig, Guayasamin, Koch, Brito-Zapata, Hollanders, Costales, and Cisneros-Heredia, 2021, Acta Herpetol., Firenze, 16: 74–82, provided new localities and discussed osteology and molecular phylogenetics. Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 3: 34–36, provided an account, with photographs, summarizing morphological identification, natural history, distribution, conservation, and also (p. 455) described the advertisement call.

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