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.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Elevations of 2340-2500 m on the western slopes of the Andes in extreme northern 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.

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