Gastrotheca turnerorum Carvajal-Endara, Coloma, Morales-Mite, Guayasamin, Székely, and Duellman, 2019

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hemiphractidae > Genus: Gastrotheca > Species: Gastrotheca turnerorum

Gastrotheca (Gastrotheca) turnerorum Carvajal-Endara, Coloma, Morales-Mite, Guayasamin, Székely, and Duellman, 2019, Zootaxa, 4562: 48. Holotype: CJ 393, by original designation. Type locality: "Laguna Negra de Jimbura, Parque Nacional Yacuri, Amaluza, 3406 m (04° 42' 44.24" S, 79° 25' 42.38" W), Loja Province, Ecuador". Zoobank publication registration: DDB73CA2-F300-4C72-B936-A6685ED775AE

Common Names

Turner's Marsupial Frog (Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 4: xxx). 

Rana Marsupial de Turner (Spanish: Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 4: xxx).

Distribution

Known only from three localities in the Cordillera Oriental of the Andes in southern Ecuador: 1) Parque Nacional Yacuri, Parque Nacional; 2) Parque Nacional Podocarpus; and 3) Reserva Tapichalaca in Zamora Chinchipe and Loja provinces, Ecuador, 2899 to 3513 m elevation. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ecuador

Endemic: Ecuador

Comment

The sister species of Gastrotheca aguaruna + Gastrotheca yacuri according to the original publication. Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 4: 159–162, provided an account, with photographs, which summarized identification, adult and larval morphology, systematics, natural history, distribution (including a dot map for Ecuador), and conservation.  

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