Hyloxalus maquipucuna (Coloma, 1995)

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

Colostethus maquipucuna Coloma, 1995, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 87: 40. Holotype: KU 202882, by original designation. Type locality: "9.4 km SW of Tandayapa, 0° 2′ S, 78° 42′ W, 2390 m, Provincia Pichincha, Ecuador".

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

Common Names

Maquipucuna Rocket Frog (Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 2: xxxii). 

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

Distribution

Known only from the type locality 9.4 km southwest of Tandayapa in montane rainforest of Pichincha Province, Ecuador, 2390 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ecuador

Endemic: Ecuador

Comment

 Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 2: 139–140, provided an account, with photographs, which summarized identification, adult morphology, systematics, natural history, distribution (including a dot map), and conservation.

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