Telmatobius edaphonastes De la Riva, 1995

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Telmatobiidae > Genus: Telmatobius > Species: Telmatobius edaphonastes

Telmatobius edaphonastes De la Riva, 1995 "1994", Graellsia, 50: 161. Holotype: MNK AM 1115, by original designation. Type locality: "La Siberia, Provincia Carrasco, Departamento Cochabamba, Bolivia, 2600 m (17° 50′ S, 64° 45′ W)".

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Known only from cloud forests of the Andean slopes of the Cordillera Oriental, in the departments of Santa Cruz and Cochabamba, Bolivia, ca. 2600 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Bolivia

Endemic: Bolivia

Comment

Most similar to Telmatobius ceiorum according to the original publication. Köhler, 2000, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 48: 141, and De la Riva, 2005, in Lavilla and De la Riva (eds.), Monogr. Herpetol., 7: 72-73, provided accounts. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 413.

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