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Telmatobius vellardi Munsterman and Leviton, 1959
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".
English Names
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.
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.
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