Nymphargus ocellatus (Boulenger, 1918)

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

Hylella ocellata Boulenger, 1918, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 9, 2: 433. Holotype: BMNH 1912.11.1.19, according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 192. Type locality: "Huancabamba, [Departamento Pasco,] E. Peru, above 3000 feet"; reregistered as 1947.2.22.56 according to museum records.

Cochranella ocellataTaylor and Cochran, 1953, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 35: 1628.

Cochranella ocellataRuiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 57: 22.

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

English Names

Spotted Cochran Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 47).

Distribution

Amazonian slopes of Andes in central and southern Peru.

Comment

See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 613.

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