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Lynchius flavomaculatus (Parker, 1938)
Eleutherodactylus flavomaculatus Parker, 1938, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 11, 2: 440. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.16.11 (formerly 1935.11.3.16), according to J.D. Lynch in Cannatella, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 336. Type locality: "15 kilometres east of Loja City, [Loja Province,] Ecuador, at an altitude of approximately 3,000 metres".
Niceforonia flavomaculata — Lynch, 1969, Herpetologica, 25: 273.
Phrynopus flavomaculatus — Lynch, 1975, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 35: 18.
Eleutherodactylus flavomaculatus — Lehr, 2006, Herpetologica, 62: 338.
"Eleutherodactylus" flavomaculatus — Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: 4.
Lynchius flavomaculatus — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 109.
Common Names
Yellow-spotted Andes Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 82).
Distribution
Known from between 2215 and 3100 m elevation on the eastern Andean Cordillera in Lojas Province, southern Ecuador, and from 3100 m in the Río Blanco Basin, Departamento de Piura in northern Peru (see comment).
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Ecuador, Peru
Comment
In the Phrynopus flavomaculatus group. Phrynopus parkeri and Phrynopus pereger (now Eleutherodactylus pereger) may be synonyms according to Lynch, 1975, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 35: 34. Almendáriz C. and Orcés, 2004, Rev. Politécnica, Quito, 25: 132-133, provided distributional data for Ecuador. Lehr, 2006, Herpetologica, 62: 338, transferred this species to the Eleutherodactylus nigrovittatus group. Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104: 10092-10097, removed this species from nominal Eleutherodactylus but did not provide a new generic name. See comment by Lehr, 2006, Herpetologica, 62: 338. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Phrynopus flavomaculatus) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 405. See Duellman and Lehr, 2009, Terrest.-breeding Frogs in Peru: 87-88, for brief account. See account by Motta, Chaparro, Pombal, Guayasamin, De la Riva, and Padial, 2016, Herpetol. Monogr., 30: 124–126. Székely, Eguiguren, Ordóñez-Delgado, Armijos-Ojeda, and Székely, 2020, PLoS One, 15(9: e0238306): 9–10, noted that the advertisement call is unknown, and suggested on molecular grounds that the nominal species is a complex of at least 4 species, with the Peru specimen in particular noted as likely distinct.
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