Epipedobates darwinwallacei Cisneros-Heredia and Yánez-Muñoz, 2011

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Dendrobatoidea > Family: Dendrobatidae > Subfamily: Colostethinae > Genus: Epipedobates > Species: Epipedobates darwinwallacei

Epipedobates robnatali van der Horst and Woldhuis, 2006, DN Mag., 2006 (4): 42. Holotype: not designated. Type locality: near Rio Mindo on trail from Mindo, ca. 1800 m elevation, Pichincha, Ecuador. Invalid nomenclatural act under Art. 16.4 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (1999) for reason of lacking explicit designation of a type. 

Epipedobates darwinwallacei Cisneros-Heredia and Yánez-Muñoz, 2011 "2010", Avanc. Cienc. Ingen., Quito, Secc. B,, 2 (3): 84. Holotype: DHMECN 5854, by original designation. Type locality: " Saragoza-Río Cinto (78° 45′ 15.7″ W, 00° 07′ 44.1″ S, 1390 m), on the Lloa-Mindo old road, provincial de Pichincha, República del Ecuador ".

English Names

Darwin Wallace Poison-Frog (Arteaga-Navarro, Bustamante, and Guayasamin, 2013, Amph. Rept. Mindo: 97). 

Distribution

Western slopes of the Cordillera Occidental of the Andes in northwestern Ecuador (Pichincha Province), at known elevations of 858 to 1719 m.

Comment

Prior to its naming confused with Epipedobates boulengeri and Epipedobates espinosai according to the original publication. Arteaga-Navarro, Bustamante, and Guayasamin, 2013, Amph. Rept. Mindo: 97–98, provided an account and dot map for Ecuador. Dias, Anganoy-Criollo, Guayasamin, and Grant, 2018, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 13: 54–63, discussed larval morphology. 

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