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Rhinella amabilis (Pramuk and Kadivar, 2003)
Bufo amabilis Pramuk and Kadivar, 2003, Herpetologica, 59: 271. Holotype: KU 120361, by original designation. Type locality: "Loja (04° 00′ S, 79° 13′ W, 2150 m), Provincia Loja, Ecuador".
Chaunus amabilis — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 364; Savage and Bolaños, 2009, Zootaxa, 2005: 4, by implication..
Rhinella amabilis — Chaparro, Pramuk, and Gluesenkamp, 2007, Herpetologica, 63: 211, by implication.
Common Names
None noted.
Distribution
Elevations of 2050–2200 m elevation in the Loja Basin, an inter-Andean valley in Loja Province, Ecuador.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Ecuador
Endemic: Ecuador
Comment
In the Bufo spinulosus group according to the original publication. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Bufo amabilis) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 178. Vera Candioti, Grosso, Pereyra, Haad, Lescano, Siu-Ting, Aguilar, and Baldo, 2020, Herpetol. Monogr., 34: 116–130, reported on larval morphology. In the Rhinella marina clade, Rhinella spinulosa group of Pereyra, Blotto, Baldo, Chaparro, Ron, Elias-Costa, Iglesias, Venegas, Thomé, Ospina-Sarria, Maciel, Rada, Kolenc, Borteiro, Rivera-Correa, Rojas-Runjaic, Moravec, De la Riva, Wheeler, Castroviejo-Fisher, Grant, Haddad, and Faivovich, 2021, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 447: 1–156, who reported on molecular and morphological phylogenetics and mentioned that the species status of this taxon relative to Rhinella limensis requires confirmation.
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