Audaciella Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Centrolenidae > Subfamily: Centroleninae > Genus: Audaciella
2 species

Audaciella Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 174. Type species: Centrolenella audax Lynch and Duellman, 1973. 

English Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Low montane evergreen forest on the Amazonian versant of Andes in northern Peru (Departamento San Martín), as well as foothills of the Cordillera Oriental and lowlands of Ecuador (Napo, Morona Santiago, Sucumbíos, and Zamora Chinchipe provinces), and Colombia (departments of Huila [eastern slope of Cordillera Central], Putumayo, Cauca, Caquetá, and Boyacá [eastern slope of Cordillera Oriental]), 800 to 1900 m elevation. 

Comment

Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 451, found Espadarana (sensu lato) to be paraphyletic with respect to Sachatamia + Rulyrana, requiring recognition of a new genus, Audaciella. 

Contained taxa (2 sp.):

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