Callimedusa ecuatoriana (Cannatella, 1982)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Phyllomedusidae > Genus: Callimedusa > Species: Callimedusa ecuatoriana

Phyllomedusa ecuatoriana Cannatella, 1982, Copeia, 1982: 507. Holotype: USNM 215750, by original designation. Type locality: "Agua Rica, a one-house posada on the trail between Limón and Gualeceo, slightly south and west of Limón, Provincia de Morona-Santiago, Ecuador, 1,890 m, 03° 02′ S, 78° 27′ W".

Callimedusa ecuatoriana — Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016, Zootaxa, 4104: 33. 

Common Names

Ecuadorian Leaf Frog (Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 4: xxxi). 

Rana de Hoja Ecuatoriana (Spanish: Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 4: xxxi).

Agua Rica Leaf Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 62).

Distribution

Amazonian slopes of the Cordillera Oriental in Morona-Santiago Province, and the Cordillera del Condor in Zamora-Chinchipe Province, Ecuador, at 1450 to 2354 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ecuador

Endemic: Ecuador

Comment

In the Phyllomedusa perinesos group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 117. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 266. Brito-M., Almendáriz C., and Batallas-Revelo, 2014, Pap. Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 54: 419–433, provided a detailed account of systematics, life history, larval morphology, and calls as well as providing records from the Cordillera del Condor in Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador. Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 4: 16–19, provided an account, with photographs, which summarized identification, adult and larval morphology, systematics, natural history, distribution (including a dot map for Ecuador), conservation, and vocalizations on p. 373.

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