Engystomops puyango Ron, Toral, Rivera, and Terán-Valdez, 2010

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Leptodactylidae > Subfamily: Leiuperinae > Genus: Engystomops > Species: Engystomops puyango

Engystomops puyango Ron, Toral, Rivera, and Terán-Valdez, 2010, Zootaxa, 2606: 28. Holotype: QCAZ 26978, by original designation. Type locality: "Ecuador, Provincia El Oro, Bosque Protector Puyango, near the bridge over the Puyango River on the road Alamor-Arenillas (3.87159° S, 80.03770° W), 321 m above sea level".

Common Names

Puyango Bully Foam Frog (Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 4: xxx). 

Sapito Bullanguero de Puyango (Spanish: Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 4: xxx).

Puyango Dwarf Frog (Armijos-Ojeda, Székely, Székely, Cogǎlniceanu, Cisneros-Heredia, Ordóñez-Delgado, Escudero, and Espinosa, 2021, ZooKeys, 1063: 31).

Distribution

Southwestern Ecuador (Loja and El Oro provinces) between 320 and 1291 m elevation; presumably into adjacent Peru.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ecuador

Endemic: Ecuador

Comment

Most similar to Engystomops pustulatus according to the original publication, where external morphology, morphometrics, and advertisement call were detailed. Armijos-Ojeda, Székely, Székely, Cogǎlniceanu, Cisneros-Heredia, Ordóñez-Delgado, Escudero, and Espinosa, 2021, ZooKeys, 1063: 31, added a new localities in El Oro Province, Ecuador, and (p. 38) provided a dot map. Nascimento, de Sá, and Garcia, 2022, J. Morphol., 283: 1299–1317, reported on larval external, oral and skeletal morphology. Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 4: 64–56, provided an account, with photographs, which summarized identification, adult morphology, systematics, natural history, distribution (including a dot map for Ecuador), conservation, and (on p. 382–383) vocalization.

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