Epipedobates machalilla (Coloma, 1995)

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

Colostethus machalilla Coloma, 1995, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 87: 38. Holotype: QCAZ 1414, by original designation. Type locality: "Río Ayampe, 25 km N Montañita, 1° 40′ S, 80° 47′ W, 70 m, boundary of Provincia Manabí and Provincia Guayas, Ecuador".

Epipedobates machalillaGrant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 166.

Common Names

None noted.

Distribution

Pacific lowlands of southern and central Ecuador (provinces of El Oro, Los Ríos, Bolivar, Guayas, Azogues, and Manabí) at elevations of 10–515 m.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ecuador

Endemic: Ecuador

Comment

Lötters, Jungfer, Henkel, and Schmidt, 2007, Poison Frogs: 410-412, provided an account. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status (as Colostethus machalilla) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 614. Armijos-Ojeda, Székely, Székely, Cogǎlniceanu, Cisneros-Heredia, Ordóñez-Delgado, Escudero, and Espinosa, 2021, ZooKeys, 1063: 37, provided a dot map. López-Hervas, Santos, Ron, Betancourth-Cundar, Cannatella, and Tarvin, 2024, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 195(108065): 1–24, as part of their molecular phylogenetic study of the species within the genus noted introgressed mtDNA between populations of Epipedobates machalilla and other species..  

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