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Leptodactylus ventrimaculatus Boulenger, 1902
Leptodactylus ventrimaculatus Boulenger, 1902, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, 9: 53. Syntypes: BMNH 1947.2.17.78–80 (3 specimens, formerly 1901.8.3.10–12); BMNH 1947.2.17.78 designated lectotype by Heyer and Peters, 1971, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 84: 166. Type locality: "Bulún [Pulún], 160 feet", Esmeraldas Province, northwestern Ecuador.
Common Names
Bulun White-lipped Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 82).
Spotted-vented Thin-toed Frog (Freile, Coloma, Terán-Valdez, Acosta-López, Tapia, and Pazmiño-Otamendi, 2020, Anfibios de Junín: 66).
Distribution
Central Ecuador to northern Peru, west of the Andes, and in Colombia on the Pacific lowlands north to Antioquia (see comment).
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
Comment
In the Leptodactylus fuscus group of Heyer, 1978, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 29: 1–85. See Ruiz-Carranza, Ardila-Robayo, and Lynch, 1996, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 20: 407, for Colombian distribution. In the Leptodactylus fuscus species group of de Sá, Grant, Camargo, Heyer, Ponssa, and Stanley, 2014, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 9(Spec. Issue 1): 1–123, and who provided a summary of relevant literature (adult morphology, identification, and range) on pp. 49, excluding Colombia, without explanation from the range. See Freile, Coloma, Terán-Valdez, Acosta-López, Tapia, and Pazmiño-Otamendi, 2020, Anfibios de Junín: 66–67, for brief account for Junín, Ecuador (identification, tadpole, habitat, range, and photograph). Armijos-Ojeda, Székely, Székely, Cogǎlniceanu, Cisneros-Heredia, Ordóñez-Delgado, Escudero, and Espinosa, 2021, ZooKeys, 1063: 38, provided a dot map for western Ecuador and northwestern Peru.
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