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Nymphargus grandisonae (Cochran and Goin, 1970)

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

Centrolenella grandisonae Cochran and Goin, 1970, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 288: 513. Holotype: BMNH 1910.7.11.68, by original designation. Type locality: "Pueblo Rico, [Departamento] Caldas [actually Risaralda], southwestern Colombia, 5000 feet altitude".

Centrolene grandisonae — Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 57: 19.

Nymphargus grandisonae — Guayasamin, Castroviejo-Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada, and Vilà, 2009, Zootaxa, 2100: 28.

Nymphargus grandisonae grandisonae — Cisneros-Heredia, Ron, Cogǎlniceanu, and Székely, 2026, Salamandra, 62: 104.

Nymphargus grandisonae orense Cisneros-Heredia, Ron, Cogǎlniceanu, and Székely, 2026, Salamandra, 62: 109. Holotype: QCAZ 58033, by original designation. Type locality: "Reserva Biológica Buenaventura (3.6530° S, 79.7429° W, 960 m), cantón Piñas, provincia de El Oro, República del Ecuador", ZooBank Publication registration: 3974FDE9-4456-4956-858E-80EDFCAA24E6

Common Names

Red-spotted Glassfrog (Arteaga-Navarro, Bustamante, and Guayasamin, 2013, Amph. Rept. Mindo: 49; Guayasamin, Cisneros-Heredia, McDiarmid, Peña, and Hutter, 2020, Diversity, 12 (222): 168; Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 4: xxix).

Measles’ Glassfrog (Guayasamin, Cisneros-Heredia, McDiarmid, Peña, and Hutter, 2020, Diversity, 12 (222): 168).

Grandison's Glassfrog (Guayasamin, Cisneros-Heredia, McDiarmid, Peña, and Hutter, 2020, Diversity, 12 (222): 168).

Rana de Cristal Sarampiona (Spanish: Guayasamin, Cisneros-Heredia, McDiarmid, Peña, and Hutter, 2020, Diversity, 12 (222): 168).

Rana de Cristal de Grandison (Spanish: Guayasamin, Cisneros-Heredia, McDiarmid, Peña, and Hutter, 2020, Diversity, 12 (222): 168).

Rana de Cristal de Puntos Rojos (Spanish: Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 4: xxix).

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

Distribution

In Colombia on the western slope of the Cordillera Central, 1900 to 2080 m elevation, in the Departments of Antioquia, Caldas, Risaralda, Tolima, and Quindio; on the western slope of the Cordilera Occidental in the Departments of Valle del Cauca, Cauca, Nariño, and Risaralda. 1230 to 3200 m elevation; in Ecuador found in Carchi, Junín, Cotopaxi, Imbabura, Pichincha, El Oro, and Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas Provinces, 1140 to 2391 m elevation in cloud forest, south to 0.5° S; allopatric population in southwestern Ecuador south of 3.5° S

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia, Ecuador

Comment

As used by Lynch and Duellman, 1973, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 16: 1-66, this name applies to the species currently recognized as Centrolenella lynchi; see Duellman, 1980, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., 83: 26-32. In the Centrolene prosoblepon group according to Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 57: 1-30. Cisneros-Heredia and McDiarmid, 2007, Zootaxa, 1572: 52, discussed the species in Ecuador and provided access to the relevant literature. Hutter, Escobar-Lasso, Rojas-Morales, Gutiérrez-Cárdenas, Imba, and Guayasamin, 2013, J. Nat. Hist., London, 47: 3011–3032, reported on vocalization. Arteaga-Navarro, Bustamante, and Guayasamin, 2013, Amph. Rept. Mindo: 49–50, provided an account and dot map for Ecuador. See account, photograph, and dot map by Vanegas-Guerrero, Ramírez-Castaño, and Guevara-Molina, 2014, Catal. Anf. Rept. Colombia, Medellín, 2(2): 51–55. Guayasamin, Cisneros-Heredia, McDiarmid, Peña, and Hutter, 2020, Diversity, 12 (222): 166–171, provided a detailed account, including natural history, primarily focused on the Ecuador segment of the range, and who noted that (1) the population from Reserva Buenaventura, El Oro Province, Ecuador, is likely an unnamed species and (2) in at least some literature Nymphargus grandisonae was confused with Nymphargus lynchi. See Freile, Coloma, Terán-Valdez, Acosta-López, Tapia, and Pazmiño-Otamendi, 2020, Anfibios de Junín: 30–31, for brief account for Junín, Ecuador (identification, call, tadpole morphology, habitat, range) and photograph. Díaz-Ricaurte and Guevara-Molina, 2022, Stud. Neotrop. Fauna Environ., 57: 51–65, provided a record from Pensilvana municipality, Caldas Province, Colombia. J. M. Guayasamin, L. A. Coloma, and A. Terán-Valdez in Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 4: 270–273, provided an account, with photographs, which summarized identification, adult and larval morphology, systematics, natural history, distribution (including a dot map), conservation, and (on p. 408–411) vocalization. Recognition of the subspecies Nymphargus grandisonae orense renders Nymphargus grandisonae grandisonae paraphyletic (at least insofar as this means anything with respect to mtDNA and allopatric populations (DRF), according to the original publication, where comparative adult and larval morphology, advertisement call, molecular markers (mtDNA) and discussed the literature of Nymphargus grandisonae and near relatives.

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