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Issue: Vol. 4238 No. 2: 3 Mar. 2017
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2017-03-02
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4238.2.8
Page range: 268–274
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Out of Amazonia: the unexpected trans-Andean distribution of Cochranella resplendens (Lynch and Duellman, 1978) (Anura: Centrolenidae)

Grupo Herpetológico de Antioquia, Instituto de Biología, Universidad de Antioquia, A.A. 1226, Medellín, Colombia
Grupo Herpetológico de Antioquia, Instituto de Biología, Universidad de Antioquia, A.A. 1226, Medellín, Colombia
Grupo Herpetológico de Antioquia, Instituto de Biología, Universidad de Antioquia, A.A. 1226, Medellín, Colombia
Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências; Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, trav. 14, 321, Cidade Universitária, 05508-090 São Paulo, Brazil
Grupo Herpetológico de Antioquia, Instituto de Biología, Universidad de Antioquia, A.A. 1226, Medellín, Colombia
Amphibia Anura Centrolenidae

Abstract

The glassfrog genus Cochranella, with nine recognized species, is distributed in the lowlands and mid elevation of the Neotropical forests, from Nicaragua to Bolivia (Guayasamin et al. 2009; Twomey et al. 2014). Four species are trans-Andean—C. granulosa (Taylor 1949) occurs in the lowlands and mountains, at mid elevation, of Central America, C. litoralis (Ruiz-Carranza & Lynch 1996) and C. mache Guayasamin & Bonaccorso 2004 occur in the Pacific lowlands and the western cloud forests of Colombia and Ecuador, and C. euknemos (Savage & Starrett 1967) occurs both in Central America and South America (northwestern Colombia).—The other five species have cis-Andean distributions in the Amazonian slopes and lowlands, from Colombia to Bolivia: C. nola Harvey 1996, C. guayasamini Twomey, Delia & Castroviejo-Fisher 2014, C. resplendens (Lynch & Duellman 1973), C. erminea Torres-Gastello, Suárez-Segovia & Cisneros-Heredia 2007, and C. phryxa Aguayo-Vedia & Harvey 2006. In Colombia, C. resplendens is known from the foothills of the Amazon versant in Caquetá (Malambo et al. 2013) and Putumayo (Lynch & Duellman 1973; Ruiz-Carranza et al. 1996). The species is also known from Ecuador (Lynch & Duellman 1973) and Peru (Twomey et al. 2014). Here, we report two new records of Cochranella resplendens, extending the species distribution beyond the Amazonian lowlands into the northern Cordillera Central in Colombia.

 

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