Nymphargus lasgralarias Hutter and Guayasamin, 2012

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

Nymphargus lasgralarias Hutter and Guayasamin, 2012, Zootaxa, 3257: 5. Holotype: MZUTI 096, by original designation. Type locality: "'Five Frog Creek' (0° 01.870′ S, 78° 42.358′ W; 2150 m) at Reserva Las Gralarias, Pichincha province, Ecuador".

Common Names

Las Gralarias Glassfrog (original publication; Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 4: xxix). 

Rana de Cristal de Las Gralarias (Spanish: original publication; Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 4: xxix).

Distribution

Western slope of the Ecuadorian Andes in Pichincha and Cotopaxi provinces at elevations between 1414–2208 m.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ecuador

Endemic: Ecuador

Comment

Most similar to Nymphargus griffithsi according to the original publication. Arteaga-Navarro, Bustamante, and Guayasamin, 2013, Amph. Rept. Mindo: 53–54, provided an account and dot map for Ecuador. Guayasamin, Cisneros-Heredia, McDiarmid, Peña, and Hutter, 2020, Diversity, 12 (222): 178–181, provided a detailed account, including adult morphology, advertisement call, relationships, natural history, and conservation status. J. M. Guayasamin, L. A. Coloma, and A. Terán-Valdez in Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 4: 277–279, provided an account, with photographs, which summarized identification, adult morphology, systematics, natural history, distribution (including a dot map), conservation, and (on p. 411–412) vocalization.

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