Ectopoglossus saxatilis Grant, Rada, Anganoy-Criollo, Batista, Dias, Jeckel, Machado, and Rueda-Almonacid, 2017

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Dendrobatoidea > Family: Dendrobatidae > Subfamily: Hyloxalinae > Genus: Ectopoglossus > Species: Ectopoglossus saxatilis

Ectopoglossus saxatilis Grant, Rada, Anganoy-Criollo, Batista, Dias, Jeckel, Machado, and Rueda-Almonacid, 2017, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 12 (Special Issue): 18. Holotype: IAvH 14613, by original designation. Type locality: "from a small tributary of the headwaters of the Río Tanelita, NE flank of Cerro Tacarcuna, Serranía del Darien, corregimiento de Balboa, municipio de Unguía, departamento del Chocó, Colombia, 1,100 m asl (08°14′01.3″N, 77°16′51.6″W; WGS 84 origin)". 

English Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Known exclusively from a stream on the Colombian side of Cerro Tacarcuna, streamside species found on and among the rocks, in the spray zone of a small waterfall, and inside a small cave; presumably found in adjacent Panama. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia

Endemic: Colombia

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