Centrolene ballux (Duellman and Burrowes, 1989)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Centrolenidae > Subfamily: Centroleninae > Genus: Centrolene > Species: Centrolene ballux

Centrolenella ballux Duellman and Burrowes, 1989, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 132: 2. Holotype: KU 164725, by original designation. Type locality: "14 km (by road) west of Chiriboa (00° 18′ S, 78° 49′ W), 1960 m, Provincia de Pichincha, Ecuador".

Centrolene balluxRuiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 57: 19; Catenazzi, von May, Gagliardi-Urrutia, Lehr, and Guayasamin, 2012, Zootaxa, 3388: 64.

"Centrolene" balluxGuayasamin, Castroviejo-Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada, and Vilà, 2009, Zootaxa, 2100: 54.

Common Names

Gold-dusted Glassfrog (Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 4: xxix). 

Gold-dust Glassfrog (Guayasamin, Cisneros-Heredia, McDiarmid, Peña, and Hutter, 2020, Diversity, 12 (222): 24). 

Rana de Cristal Dorada (Spanish: Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 4: xxix). 

Golden-flecked Glassfrog (Arteaga-Navarro, Bustamante, and Guayasamin, 2013, Amph. Rept. Mindo: 38). 

Burrowes' Giant Glass Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 46).

Distribution

Cloud forests of Carchi, Imbabura, Pichincha, and Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas provinces (Ecuador) and one in the Department of Nariño (Colombia) on the Pacific slopes of the Cordillera Occidental of the Andes at elevation between 1780 and 2340 m 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia, Ecuador

Comment

 Márquez, De la Riva, and Bosch, 1996, Herpetol. J., 6: 97–99, described the advertisement call. Arteaga-Navarro, Bustamante, and Guayasamin, 2013, Amph. Rept. Mindo: 38–40, provided an account and map for Ecuador. See account by Guayasamin, Cisneros-Heredia, McDiarmid, Peña, and Hutter, 2020, Diversity, 12 (222): 24–28, provided a detailed account, including adult morphology, advertisement call, relationships, natural history, and conservation status. Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 4: 180–183, provided an account, with photographs, which summarized identification, adult and larval morphology, systematics, natural history, distribution (including a dot map for Ecuador), conservation, and (on p. 398) vocalization.

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