Hyloxalus delatorreae (Coloma, 1995)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Dendrobatoidea > Family: Dendrobatidae > Subfamily: Hyloxalinae > Genus: Hyloxalus > Species: Hyloxalus delatorreae

Colostethus delatorreae Coloma, 1995, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 87: 26. Holotype: KU 202825, by original designation. Type locality: "ca. 5 km W El Laurel, approx. 25 km E Maldonado, 2340 m, Provincia Carchi, Ecuador".

Hyloxalus delatorreaeGrant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 168.

Common Names

De la Torre's Rocket Frog (Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 2: xxxii). 

Rana Cohete de la Torre (Spanish: Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 2: xxxii).

Distribution

Elevations of 2062 to 2776 m on the western slopes of the Andes in extreme northern Ecuador (Carchi Province).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ecuador

Endemic: Ecuador

Comment

See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Colostethus delatorreae) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 222. Batallas-Revelo, Márquez, and Guayasamin, 2025, ZooKeys, 1224: 211–252, reported on the advertisement call from Carchi Province, Ecuador. Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 2: 121–123, provided an account, with photographs, which summarized identification, adult and larval morphology, systematics, natural history, distribution (including a dot map), conservation, and (on p. 556) the advertisement call. 

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