Telmatobius mantaro Ttito, Landauro, Venegas, De la Riva, and Chaparro, 2016

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

Telmatobius mantaro Ttito, Landauro, Venegas, De la Riva, and Chaparro, 2016, Ann. Carnegie Mus., 83: 258. Holotype: CORBIDI 9925, by original designation. Type locality: "Quintao, 3020 m (12° 15’ 53.3’’ S, 74° 40’ 17.2’’ W), District Colcabamba, Province Tayacaja, Department of Huancavelica, Peru". 

Common Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Known from three localities at elevations of 2240–3170 m in the eastern Cordillera Central of the Peruvian Andes: Mantaro Valley (Cedro and Quintao), in northeastern Huancavelica, range from humid lower montane forests to dry lower montane forests, and the locality in Ayacucho (Ccarapa, below Tambo) is in humid montane forest. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Peru

Endemic: Peru

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