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Hyloxalus anthracinus (Edwards, 1971)
Colostethus anthracinus Edwards, 1971, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 84: 155. Holotype: KU 120639, by original designation. Type locality: "Páramo de Raranga, 12 km S Cutchil, Morona-Santiago Province, Ecuador, 3400 m".
Hyloxalus anthracinus — Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 168.
Common Names
Black Rocket Frog (Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 2: xxxi).
Rana Cohete Negra (Spanish: Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 2: xxxi).
South American Rocket Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 48).
Distribution
858 to 3876 m elevation on the Cordillera Oriental and the Mazán River in southern Ecuador (Cañar, Azuay, and Zamora Chinchipe provinces), south to Huamba District, Ayabaca Province, Piura Department, Peru.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Ecuador, Peru
Comment
See account by Coloma, 1995, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 87: 16. Almendáriz C. and Orcés, 2004, Rev. Politécnica, Quito, 25: 109, provided distributional data for Ecuador. Venegas and García Ayachi, 2024, Rev. Latinoam. Herpetol., 7(4: e1048): 247–251, reported the species from Huamba District, Ayabaca Province, Piura Department, Peru, and provided a dot map of the species' range. Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 2: 109–112, provided an account, with photographs, which summarized identification, adult and larval morphology, systematics, natural history, distribution (including a dot map for Ecuador), and conservation. They also noted that the tadpoles described under this name by Coloma, 1995, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 87: 1–72, are (tentatively) referrable to Telmatobius niger.
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