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Boana almendarizae (Caminer and Ron, 2014)
Hypsiboas almendarizae Caminer and Ron, 2014, ZooKeys, 370: 33. Holotype: QCAZ 39650, by original designation. Type locality: "Ecuador, Provincia Morona Santiago, General Leonidas Plaza, 'Limón', on the road to Gualaceo (2.9796°S, 78.4415°W), 1237 m above sea level". Zoobank: http://zoobank.org/5D68CEA5-D2D1-44A9-AA7C-D30081D92C7D
Boana almendarizae — Dubois, 2017, Bionomina, 11: 28.
English Names
Almendariz's Treefrog (original publication).
Distribution
Eastern Andean slopes of central and southern Ecuador (Morona Santiago, Napo, and Tungurahua provinces) at elevations of 500 to 1950 m.
Comment
In the Hypsiboas albopunctatus species group, Hypsiboas calcaratus complex, most similar to Hypsiboas fasciatus and Hypsiboas calcaratus according to the original publication. Batallas-Revelo and Brito-M., 2016, Rev. Mexicana Biodiversidad, 87: 1292–1300, reported on vocalizations from Sangay National Park, southeastern Ecuador. Camper, Torres-Carvajal, Ron, Nilsson, Arteaga-Navarro, Knowles, and Arbogast, 2021, Check List, 17: 729–751, provided a record from Wildsumaco Wildlife Sanctuary, Napo Province, Ecuador. Rainha, Martinez, Moraes, Castro, Réjaud, Fouquet, Leite, Rodrigues, and Werneck, 2021, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 134: 177–197, included this species in their Boana calcarata clade and discussed phylogenetics and the influence of subtle environmental factors on geographic variation in morphology.
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