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Osteocephalus cannatellai Ron, Venegas, Toral, Read, Ortiz, and Manzano, 2012
Osteocephalus cannatellai Ron, Venegas, Toral, Read, Ortiz, and Manzano, 2012, ZooKeys, 229: 16. Holotype: QCAZ 49572, by original designation. Type locality: "Ecuador, Provincia Pastaza, Cantón Santa Clara, Río Pucayacu, in the vicinities of the Zanjarajuno Reserve (1.3578° S, 77.8477° W), 940 m above sea level".
Common Names
Cannatella's Spiny-backed Treefrog (Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 2: xxxiv).
Rana Espinosa de Cannatella (Spanish: Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 2: xxxiv).
Distribution
Amazon Basin of Ecuador (provinces of Morona Santiago, Napo, Orellana, Pastaza, and Sucumbíos) and Peru (Cordillera Kampankis), at elevations of 200 to 1290 m.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Ecuador, Peru
Comment
In the Osteocephalus buckleyi group according to the original publication. In the Osteocephalus buckleyi species group of Jungfer, Faivovich, Padial, Castroviejo-Fisher, Lyra, Berneck, Iglesias, Kok, MacCulloch, Rodrigues, Verdade, Torres-Gastello, Chaparro, Valdujo, Reichle, Moravec, Gvoždík, Gagliardi-Urrutia, Ernst, De la Riva, Means, Lima, Señaris Vasquez, Wheeler, and Haddad, 2013, Zool. Scripta, 42: 351-380. Forti, Foratto, Márquez, Pereira, and Toledo, 2018, PeerJ, 6(e4813): 1–19, characterized the advertisement call. Chasiluisa, Caminer, Varela-Jaramillo, and Ron, 2020, Neotropical Biodiversity, 6: 21–36, noted on the basis of molecular evidence that nominal Osteocephalus cannatellai is composed of at least two lineages, with the Zamora-Chinchipe population unnamed. Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 2: 461–463, provided an account, with photographs, which summarized identification, adult morphology, systematics, natural history, distribution (including a dot map for Ecuador), conservation, and (on pp. 590–591) the advertisement call.
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