Telmatobius vellardi Munsterman and Leviton, 1959

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

Telmatobius vellardi Munsterman and Leviton, 1959, Occas. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Stanford Univ., 7: 1. Holotype: CAS-SU 18100, by original designation. Type locality: "Cajanuma Mountains, 15 kilometers south of Loja, Loja Province, southern Ecuador, at 2900 meters altitude".

Common Names

Vellard's Kayla (Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 2: xxxv). 

Kayla de Vellard (Spanish: Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 2: xxxv).

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

Distribution

Cajanuma Mountains, Azuay and Loja Provinces, southern Ecuador, 2500–3050 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ecuador

Endemic: Ecuador

Comment

See account by Trueb, 1979, Copeia, 1979: 714-733. See Merino-Viteri, Coloma, and Almendáriz C., 2005, in Lavilla and De la Riva (eds.), Monogr. Herpetol., 7: 9-37, for summary of biology and conservation status. Almendáriz C. and Orcés, 2004, Rev. Politécnica, Quito, 25: 134-135, provided distributional data for Ecuador. 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: 419. Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 2: 12–14, provided an account with photographs which summarized identification, adult and larval morphology, systematics, natural history, distribution (including a dot map for Ecuador), and conservation.

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