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Osteocephalus mutabor Jungfer and Hödl, 2002
Osteocephalus mutabor Jungfer and Hödl, 2002, Amphibia-Reptilia, 23: 34. Holotype: EPN H-6658, by original designation. Type locality: "Ecuador: Provincia Napo: South slope of Volcan Sumaco on rio Pucuno, 1000 m a.s.l., between Guamani and Guagua Sumaco (0° 42′ 24″ S/77° 35′ 54″ W)".
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Low to intermediate elevations on the western Andean foothills of Ecuador to Balta, Departamento Ucuyali, and Loreto, Peru.
Comment
Previously confused with Osteocephalus leprieurii according to the original publication. Cisneros-Heredia, 2007, Herpetozoa, Wien, 19: 183, provided a record from 54 km east of the type locality. 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, 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. 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: 114–115, provided a brief account, photograph, dot map, and genetic barcode for Loreto, Peru.
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