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Hyloxalus infraguttatus (Boulenger, 1898)
Phyllobates infraguttatus Boulenger, 1898, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1898: 118. Syntypes: BMNH 1947.2.14.7-8 (originally 1898.4.28.96-97) by museum records; BMNH 1947.2.14.7 designated lectotype by Coloma, 1995, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 87: 33. Type locality: "Chimbo"; also noted in the original publication as "Puente del Chimbo, the railway terminus about 70 miles from Guayaquil, at an elevation of about 1000 feet", Provincia Chimborazo, Ecuador. See comment regarding type locality by Rivero and Almendáriz C., 1992 "1991", Rev. Politécnica, Quito, 16: 116.
Colostethus infraguttatus — Edwards, 1971, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 84: 148.
Hyloxalus infraguttatus — Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 168.
English Names
Chimbo Rocket Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 48).
Distribution
Pacific slopes of Ecuador Andes, 70–1500 m elevation, in the provinces of Manabí, Guayas, Bolivar, Los Ríos, Azuay, and El Oro; north to 4 km northwest of Junín, Nariño, Colombia, and likely south to extreme northwestern Peru (see comment).
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Colombia, Ecuador
Likely/Controversially Present: Peru
Comment
See account by Coloma, 1995, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 87: 33. Kaplan, 1997, J. Herpetol., 31: 373. Almendáriz C. and Orcés, 2004, Rev. Politécnica, Quito, 25: 110, provided distributional data for Ecuador. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status (as Colostethus infraguttatus) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 613. Sánchez, 2013, Zootaxa, 3637: 586, reported the species from Barbacoas municipality, Nariño, Colombia. Armijos-Ojeda, Székely, Székely, Cogǎlniceanu, Cisneros-Heredia, Ordóñez-Delgado, Escudero, and Espinosa, 2021, ZooKeys, 1063: 37, mapped the species as extending into extreme northwestern Peru but the associated supplemental data are confusing.
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