Nymphargus bejaranoi (Cannatella, 1980)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Centrolenidae > Subfamily: Centroleninae > Genus: Nymphargus > Species: Nymphargus bejaranoi

Centrolenella bejaranoi Cannatella, 1980, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 93: 715. Holotype: KU 182369, by original designation. Type locality: "58.1 km SW Villa Tunari (by road), 1980 m, Departamento Cochabamba, Bolivia (65° 50′ W,17° 11′ S)".

Cochranella bejaranoiRuiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 57: 21.

Centrolenella flavidigitata Reynolds and Foster, 1992, Herpetol. Monogr., 6: 89. Holotype: USNM 257803, by original designation. Type locality: "Road to San Onofre, 3.3 km by road N of the road from Cochabamba to Villa Tunari, at a point 97.5 km from Cochabamba, Chapare Province, Department of Cochabamba, Bolivia, elevation approximately 1601 m". Synonymy by Harvey, 1996, Herpetologica, 52: 427-435.

Cochranella flavidigitataHarvey, 1996, Herpetologica, 52: 427-435.

Nymphargus bejaranoiCisneros-Heredia and McDiarmid, 2007, Zootaxa, 1572: 34.

Common Names

Bolivian Cochran Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 46).

Distribution

Humid montane forests on the eastern slopes of the Andes in the departments of Cochabamba, Chuquisaca, La Paz, and Santa Cruz, Bolivia, 1600-2400 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Bolivia

Endemic: Bolivia

Comment

In the Cochranella ocellata group according to Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 57: 1-30. See brief account by Köhler, 2000, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 48: 87-88. Márquez, De la Riva, and Bosch, 1996, Herpetol. J., 6: 97–99, described the advertisement call. See comments by Harvey and Noonan, 2005, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 118: 434-435.

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