- Amphibian Species of the World on Twitter
- What is the right name?
- Curator's blog
- Running log of additions and changes, 2023
- Logs of changes and additions, 2014–2022
- How to cite
- How to use
- History of the project, 1980 to 2023
- Comments on amphibian taxonomy relating to versions 3.0 to 6.2 (2004 to 2023)
- Scientific Nomenclature and Its Discontents
- Structure of the taxonomic records
- Contributors and reviewers for Amphibian Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (1985)
- Contributors, online editions
- Versions
- Museum abbreviations
- Links to useful amphibian systematic, conservation, collection management, informational, and/or regional sites
- Links to useful FREE library sites
- Copyright and terms of use
Boana nympha (Faivovich, Moravec, Cisneros-Heredia, and Köhler, 2006)
Hypsiboas nympha Faivovich, Moravec, Cisneros-Heredia, and Köhler, 2006, Herpetologica, 62: 97. Holotype: DFCH-USFQ 0355, by original designation. Type locality: "Ecuador: Provincia de Sucumbíos: Reserva de Producción Faunística Cuyabeno, (00° 05′ 02″ S, 76° 12′ 54″ W, 290 m a.s.l.), ca. 3.3 km E of the Lago Agrio--Tarapoa--Puerto El Carmen Road".
Boana nympha — Dubois, 2017, Bionomina, 11: 28.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Upper Amazon Basis of eastern Ecuador, northeastern Peru, and north to the municipality of Puerto Asís, Putumayo, and east to Leticia, Amazonas (Colombia) and presumably in adjacent Brazil, all below 600 m elevation.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
Likely/Controversially Present: Brazil
Comment
In the Hypsiboas benitezi group, and previous confused with Hyloscirtus albopunctulatus (e.g., Duellman and Mendelson, 1995, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 55: 329-376) according to the original publication. Perdomo-Castillo and Mueses-Cisneros, 2014, Herpetotropicos, Mérida, 10: 33–35, provided a record for Putumayo, Colombia, and discussed the range. Metcalf, Marsh, Torres Pacaya, Graham, and Gunnels, 2020, Herpetol. Notes, 13: 753–767, reported the species from the Santa Cruz Forest Reserve, Loreto, northeastern Peru. Gagliardi-Urrutia, García Dávila, Jaramillo-Martinez, Rojas-Padilla, Rios-Alva, Aguilar-Manihuari, Pérez-Peña, Castroviejo-Fisher, Simões, Estivals, Guillen Huaman, Castro Ruiz, Angulo Chávez, Mariac, Duponchelle, and Renno, 2022, Anf. Loreto: 92–93, provided a brief account, photograph, dot map, and genetic barcode for Loreto, Peru.
External links:
Please note: these links will take you to external websites not affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History. We are not responsible for their content.
- For additional sources of general information from other websites search Google
- For access to relevant technical literature search Google Scholar
- For images search CalPhoto Images and Google Images
- To search the NIH genetic sequence database, see GenBank
- For additional information see AmphibiaWeb report
- For information on conservation status and distribution see the IUCN Redlist
- For information on distribution, habitat, and conservation see the Map of Life
- For related information on conservation and images as well as observation see iNaturalist
- For additional information specific to Ecuador see FaunaWebEcuador: Anfibios del Ecuador
- For access to available specimen data for this species, from over 350 scientific collections, go to Vertnet.