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Osteocephalus duellmani Jungfer, 2011
Osteocephalus duellmani Jungfer, 2011, Herpetol. J., 21: 247. Holotype: KU 147172, by original designation. Type locality: "Cordillera del Cóndor, Río Piuntza, 1910 m asl, about 3° 25′ S, 78° 27′ W, Provincia Morona-Santiago, Ecuador".
Common Names
Duellman's Spiny-backed Treefrog (Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 2: xxxiv).
Rana Espinosa de Duellman (Spanish: Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 2: xxxiv).
Distribution
Known only from the type locality in the Cordillera del Cóndor, Provincia Morona-Santiago, Ecuador, at 1910 m elevation.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Ecuador
Endemic: Ecuador
Comment
Most similar to Osteocephalus buckleyi and Osteocephalus festae according to the original publication. Tentively included 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. Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 2: 465–466, provided an account, with photographs, which summarized identification, adult morphology, systematics, natural history, distribution (including a dot map for Ecuador), and conservation.
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