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Hyloscirtus bogotensis Peters, 1882
Hyloscirtus bogotensis — Peters, 1882, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1882: 127. Dunn, 1944, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 6: 78; Lutz, 1968, Pearce-Sellards Ser., 11: 18.
Hylonomus bogotensis Peters, 1882, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1882: 107. Holotype: ZMB 10209, according to Duellman, 1972, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 11: 19. Type locality: "Bogotá (Neu-Granada)", Departamento Cundinamarca, Colombia.
Hyla bogotensis — Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 327.
Hyloscirtus vermiculatus Lutz and Ruiz-Carranza, 1977, Bol. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, N.S., Zool., 289: 1. Holotype: ICN 0316, by original designation. Type locality: "Páramo de Guantiva, 3600 m. alt., Departament of Boyacá, 14 km from Belon de Cerinza", Colombia. Synonymy by Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1982, Caldasia, 13: 649.
Hyloscirtus bogotensis — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 84.
Boana bogotensis — Wiens, Fetzner, Parkinson, and Reeder, 2005, Syst. Biol., 54: 743, by implication.
Common Names
Bogota Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 54).
Distribution
Central part of Cordillera Oriental (4° 40′ N to 6° N) of Andes in Colombia, 1750-3600 m elevation.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Colombia
Endemic: Colombia
Comment
In the Hyloscirtus bogotensis group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 84. For discussion see Duellman, 1972, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 11: 1-31, and Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1982, Caldasia, 13: 647-671. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 616. In Hyloscirtus species group A of Sánchez, 2010, Copeia, 2010: 351-363.
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