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 grandisonaeRuiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 57: 19.

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

Common Names

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

Red-spotted Glassfrog (Arteaga-Navarro, Bustamante, and Guayasamin, 2013, Amph. Rept. Mindo: 49). 

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, Pichincha, and Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilasa Provinces, 1140 to 1850 m elevation in cloud forest.  

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.   

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