Centrolene elisae Franco-Mena, Vega-Yánez, Reyes-Puig, and Guayasamin, 2024

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

Centrolene elisae Franco-Mena, Vega-Yánez, Reyes-Puig, and Guayasamin in Franco-Mena, De la Riva, Vega-Yánez, Székely, Amador, Batallas-Revelo, Reyes-Puig, Cisneros-Heredia, Venegas-Valencia, Galeano, Culebras, and Guayasamin, 2024, PeerJ, 12(e17712): 21. Holotype: MZUTI 84, by original designaiton. Type locality: "Las Caucheras (0.6133°S, 77.8974°W; 2,187–2,191 m), Napo province, Ecuador". Zoobank Publication Registration: EB178068-646B-4071-96B4-C0614D90A366

Common Names

Elisa’s Glassfrog (original publication). 

Distribution

Cloud forests of the eastern Cordillera of the Ecuadorian Andes; currently known from four localities: Las Caucheras, Yanayacu Biological Station (Napo Province), Chamanapamba Reserve, and Río Pucayaku in Nelson Palacios Reserve (Tungurahua Province), at elevations of 2100–2586 m. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ecuador

Endemic: Ecuador

Comment

In the Centrolene buckleyi complex, previously confused with Centrolene buckleyi, delimited on the basis of morphometric, osteological, call, and genetic data according to the original publication. 

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