Telmatobius pefauri Veloso and Trueb, 1976

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

Telmatobius pefauri Veloso and Trueb, 1976, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 62: 2. Holotype: KU 159836, by original designation. Type locality: "Murmuntani, 3200 m, Departamento de Arico, Provincia de Tarapacá, Chile".

Telmatobius zapahuirensis Veloso, Sallaberry-Ayerza, Navarro, Iturra-Constant, Valencia, Penna, and Diaz, 1982, in Veloso and Bustos (eds.), El Ambiente Nat. y Los Pobl. Humanas de los Andes: 170. Holotype: DBCUCH 0629, by original designation. Type locality: "en el Quebrada de Zapahuira, 30 km al Norte de Murmuntani, 3.270 m snm", Chile. Synonymy by Fibla, Sáez, Salinas, Araya, Sallaberry-Ayerza, and Méndez-Torres, 2017, Zootaxa, 4250: 301. 

Common Names

Arico Water Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 85).

Zapahuira Water Frog (Telmatobius zapahuirensis [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 85).

Distribution

Known from seven localities in Tarapacá and Parinacota provinces, northern Chile, on the western slope of the Andes. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Chile

Endemic: Chile

Comment

De la Riva, Köhler, Lötters, and Reichle, 2000, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 14: 58, and Köhler, 2000, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 48: 69, thought this species possibly to occur in Bolivia. Diaz and Valencia, 1985, Copeia, 1985: 175–181, described larval morphology. Veloso, Sallaberry-Ayerza, Navarro, Iturra-Constant, Valencia, Penna, and Diaz, 1982, in Veloso and Bustos (eds.), El Ambiente Nat. y Los Pobl. Humanas de los Andes: 164-169, provided an account. Penna and Veloso, 1987, Herpetologica, 43: 208–216, discussed vocalization (both as Telmatobius pefauri and Telmatobius zapahuirensis). See discussion by Formas, Veloso, and Ortiz, 2005, in Lavilla and De la Riva (eds.), Monogr. Herpetol., 7: 103–114. 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: 416. and (as Telmatobius zapahuirensis) on p. 420. Fibla, Sáez, Salinas, Araya, Sallaberry-Ayerza, and Méndez-Torres, 2017, Zootaxa, 4250: 301–314, provided a detailed study of morphology and molecular phylogenetics. See Lobos, Vidal-Maldonado, Correa-Quezada, Labra-Lillo, Díaz-Páez, Charrier, Rabanal, Díaz-Vidal, and Tala, 2013, Anf. Chile Conserv.: 1–104, for comments on conservation status and range (as Telmatobius pefauri and Telmatobius zapahuirensis). Fibla, Sáez, Cruz-Jofré, and Méndez, 2023, Zool. Stud., Taipei, 62 (44): 1–14, reported on the reported on the drainage phylogeography within the Lluta and Azapa drainage basins. 

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