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Centrolene pipilata (Lynch and Duellman, 1973)
Centrolenella pipilata Lynch and Duellman, 1973, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 16: 46. Holotype: KU 143278, by original designation. Type locality: "a stream 16.5 km NNE of Santa Rosa, 1700 m on Quito--Lago Agrio road, Provincia Napo, Ecuador".
Centrolene pipilatum — Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 57: 20.
Centrolene piplata — Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris Vasquez, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 19.
Common Names
Amazon Giant Glass Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 46).
Peeping Glassfrog (Guayasamin, Cisneros-Heredia, McDiarmid, Peña, and Hutter, 2020, Diversity, 12 (222): 65).
Distribution
Endemic to the cloud forest on the Amazonian slope of the Ecuadorian Andes (in the provinces of Napo and Sucumbíos) at elevations between 1300–1910 m.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Ecuador
Endemic: Ecuador
Comment
In the Centrolene prosoblepon group, according to Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 57: 1-30. Cisneros-Heredia and McDiarmid, 2007, Zootaxa, 1572: 58-59, discussed the species in Ecuador and noted the relevant literature. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 211. Guayasamin, Cisneros-Heredia, McDiarmid, Peña, and Hutter, 2020, Diversity, 12 (222): 65–67, provided a detailed account, including adult morphology, relationships, natural history, and conservation status.
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