ELEUTHERODACTYLUS MALKINI (NCN). ECUADOR: PROVINCIA DE SUCUMBIOS: 5 km from “El Triunfo” [a town on the km 68 on the Lago Agrio - Puerto El Carmen road] (00º03’S, 76º24’W, 270 m). 16 July 2000. D. F. Cisneros-Heredia, M. Brandt, A. León, T. Suhagara, and C. Ponce. Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador (DFCH-USFQ 373-75). Verified by L. Coloma. Eleutherodactylus malkini occurs along the low
... [Show full abstract] elevation rainforests in the upper Amazon Basin in extreme southeastern Colombia (Leticia), Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil (Lynch 1980. Am. Mus. Novit. 2696; Frost 2004. Amphibian Species of the World. Ver. 3.0 [22 August, 2004]. http://research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia/index.html. American Museum of Natural History, New York). This record represents the northernmost locality in the distribution of the species, extending its range ca. 60 km N from the nearest locality at the Tiputini Biodioversity Station (Cisneros-Heredia 2003. Herpetofauna de la Estación de Biodiversidad Tiputini, Amazonía Ecuatoriana. In De la Torre and Reck [eds], Ecología y Ambiente en el Ecuador, pp. 1–21. Mem. I Congreso de Ecología y Ambiente, Ecuador país megadiverso. CD. Universidad San Francisco de Quito).