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Epicrionops marmoratus Taylor, 1968
Epicrionops marmoratus Taylor, 1968, Caecilians of the World: 205. Holotype: BMNH 1956.1.15.87, by original designation. Type locality: "Santo Domingo de los Colorados, west Ecuador", at an elevation of 670 m according to Taylor and Peters, 1974, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 50: 336.
Rhinatrema marmoratum — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 407, 487.
Common Names
Marbled Caecilian (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 25).
Distribution
Known only from northwestern Ecuador (provinces of Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas and Pichincha (but see comment), as well as adjacent southwestern Colombia (Reserva Río Ñambí’, Barbacoas, Nariño, Colombia), 670 to 1140 m elevation.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Colombia, Ecuador
Comment
Taylor and Peters, 1974, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 50: 336, reported an additional specimen from near Mindo on the western Andean slopes of Ecuador at about 1400 m elevation. Fernández-Roldán, Lynch, and Medina-Rangel, 2022, Herpetol. Bull., London, 161: 34–36, reported the species from southwestern Colombia and discussed the range. Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 4: 345, on the basis of an unpublished thesis by Fletcher-Lazo, 2002, Tesis de Licenc., Pontificia Univers. Católica del Ecuador, suggested that Epicrionops marmoratus records from Ecuador represent Epicrionops bicolor.
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