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Centrolene sanchezi Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991
Centrolene sanchezi Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 58: 22. Holotype: ICN 24293, by original designation. Type locality: "Departamento de Caquetá, municipio de Florencia, vereda Gabinete, 3.1 Km por carretera abajo del Alto Gabinete, vertiente oriental, Cordillera Oriental, 1° 4′ latitud N, 75° 4′ W de Greenwich, 2190 m.", Colombia.
Centrolene bacatum Wild, 1994, J. Herpetol., 28: 301. Holotype: KU 202803, by original designation. Type locality: "11.2 km WSW Plan de Milagro (03°02′S, 78°35′W, 2350 m), Provincia Morona-Santiago, Ecuador". Synonymy by
Centrolene guanacarum Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1995, Lozania, 65: 13. Holotype: ICN 11686, by original designation. Type locality: "Departamento del Cauca, munipicipio de Inzá, Km. 84 carretera Popayán a Inzá, Río Guanacas, quebrada afluente, Internado Indígena Río Guanacas, vertiente oriental Cordillera Central, 2° 34′ Latitud N, 76° 05′ W de Greenwich, 1800-1900 m", Colombia. Synonymy by Guayasamin, Cisneros-Heredia, McDiarmid, Peña, and Hutter, 2020, Diversity, 12 (222): 68.
"Centrolene" guanacarum — Guayasamin, Castroviejo-Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada, and Vilà, 2009, Zootaxa, 2100: 56.
Centrolene bacata — Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris Vasquez, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 19.
Common Names
Sanchez's Giant Glass Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 46).
Sánchez's Glassfrog (Guayasamin, Cisneros-Heredia, McDiarmid, Peña, and Hutter, 2020, Diversity, 12 (222): 68).
Distribution
Cordillera Central of Colombia, on the eastern and western slopes in the Departamentos de Caquetá and Cauca, between 1800 and 1900 m elevation; on the eastern slopes of the Cordillera Oriental in Ecuador (provinces of Morona Santiago and Napo), at elevations between 1800 and 2350 m.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Colombia, Ecuador
Comment
In the Centrolene peristictum group, similar to Centrolene peristictum and Centrolene pipilatum, according to the original publication. See detailed account by Guayasamin, Cisneros-Heredia, McDiarmid, Peña, and Hutter, 2020, Diversity, 12 (222): 68–72, including natural history. See account (as Centrolene bacatum) by Guayasamin, Bustamante, Almeida-Reinoso, and Funk, 2006, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 147: 492-497. Mueses-Cisneros, 2005, Caldasia, 27: 232, provided a record (as Centrolene bacatum) for Putumayo, Colombia. Cisneros-Heredia and McDiarmid, 2007, Zootaxa, 1572: 48, summarized the relevant literature for Centrolene bacatum. See note by Guayasamin and Funk, 2009, Zootaxa, 2220: 41-66, on this species (as Centrolene bacatum) at the Yanayacu Biological Station, Napo, Ecuador. Ruiz-Carranza, Ardila-Robayo, and Lynch, 1996, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 20: 370, rejected records (of Centrolene guanacarum) from the Department of Risaralda, Colombia. Guayasamin, Cisneros-Heredia, McDiarmid, Peña, and Hutter, 2020, Diversity, 12 (222): 68–72, provided a detailed account, including adult morphology, advertisement call, relationships, natural history, and conservation status.
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