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Nymphargus anomalus (Lynch and Duellman, 1973)
Centrolenella anomala Lynch and Duellman, 1973, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 16: 14. Holotype: KU 143299, by original designation. Type locality: "Río Azuela, 1740 m, Quito--Lago Agrio road, Provincia Napo, Ecuador".
Cochranella anomala — Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 57: 21.
Nymphargus anomalus — Cisneros-Heredia and McDiarmid, 2007, Zootaxa, 1572: 34.
English Names
Napo Cochran Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 46).
Anomalous Glassfrog (Guayasamin, Cisneros-Heredia, McDiarmid, Peña, and Hutter, 2020, Diversity, 12 (222): 143).
Distribution
Known only from four localities on the Amazonian slopes of the Ecuadorian Andes, Provinces of Napo, Pastaza, and Tungurahua, at elevations of 1668–1795 m elevation.
Geographics occurrence
Natural resident: Ecuador
Endemic to the political unit: Ecuador
Comment
In the Cochranella ocellata group according to Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 57: 1-30. Cisneros-Heredia and McDiarmid, 2007, Zootaxa, 1572: 46, corrected the diagnosis. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Cochranella anomala) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 212. See account by Rada, Ospina-Sarria, and Guayasamin, 2017, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 12: 137–141. Guayasamin, Cisneros-Heredia, McDiarmid, Peña, and Hutter, 2020, Diversity, 12 (222): 143–146, provided a detailed account, including natural history.
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