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Nymphargus chancas (Duellman and Schulte, 1993)
Cochranella chancas Duellman and Schulte, 1993, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 155: 16. Holotype: KU 211778, by original designation. Type locality: "west slope of Abra Tangarana, 7 km (by road) northeast of San Juan de Pacaysapa (06° 12′S, 76° 44′W, 1080 m), Provincia Lamas, Departamento San Martín, Perú".
Nymphargus chancas — Cisneros-Heredia and McDiarmid, 2007, Zootaxa, 1572: 34.
Common Names
Peru Cochran Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 46).
Distribution
Throughout northern Departamento San Martín, Peru, at elevations over 1000 m.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Peru
Endemic: Peru
Comment
In the Cochranella ocellata group according to the original publication. Twomey, Delia, and Castroviejo-Fisher, 2014, Zootaxa, 3851: 46–47, provided new records for Peru and life history data. Previous records from Ecuador are now assigned to Nympharus colomai.
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