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Hyla phyllognatha [Geographic Distribution]

January 2004
Herpetological Review 35(4):404

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Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia

Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ)

HYLA PHYLLOGNATHA (NCN). ECUADOR: PROVINCIA DE ZAMORA-CHINCHIPE: Numbami and Romerillos Bajo, Jamboe River basin, Podocarpus National Park (ca. 04º14’S, 78º56’W, 1500–1700 m). 28–30 April 1999. F. Nogales and D. Almeida. Universidad San Francisco de Quito/Fund. Herpetológica Orcés, Quito (FHGO-USFQ 2346, 2434). Verified by Jean-Marc Touzet. Previously known along the Amazonian slopes of the Andes and associated ranges in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru (Duellman 1972. Occ. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas 11: 1-31; Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch 1982. Caldasia XIII [64]: 647-671; Frost 2002 Amphibian Species of the World. V2.21 [15 July 2002] <http://research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia/index.html> [Accessed: 19 July 2004]). There is a gap of ca. 500 km between the Ecuadorian records in the provinces of Sucumbíos, Napo, Pastaza, Tungurahua, and Morona-Santiago and the Peruvian records in the departments of San Martín, Ucayali, Cusco, Pasco and Junín (Duellman, op. cit.; Lehr 2001. Herpetol. Rev. 32:130-132). Specimens reported herein constitute the first locality within the province of Zamora-Chinchipe, partially filling the gap between Ecuadorian and Peruvian records. This locality is the westernmost record of the species, extending its range ca. 230 km SSW from the nearest locality in the province of Morona-Santiago (Macas; Duellman, op. cit.).

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HYLA PHYLLOGNATHA (NCN). ECUADOR: PROVINCIA DE

ZAMORA-CHINCHIPE: Numbami and Romerillos Bajo, Jamboe

River basin, Podocarpus National Park (ca. 04º14’S, 78º56’W,

1500–1700 m). 28–30 April 1999. F. Nogales and D. Almeida.

Universidad San Francisco de Quito/Fund. Herpetológica Orcés,

Quito (FHGO-USFQ 2346, 2434). Verified by Jean-Marc Touzet.

Previously known along the Amazonian slopes of the Andes and

associated ranges in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru (Duellman 1972.

Occ. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas 11: 1-31; Ruiz-Carranza

and Lynch 1982. Caldasia XIII [64]: 647-671; Frost 2002 Am-

phibian Species of the World. V2.21 [15 July 2002]. <http://

research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia/index.html> [Accessed:

19 July 2004]). There is a gap of ca. 500 km between the Ecuador-

ian records in the provinces of Sucumbíos, Napo, Pastaza,

Tungurahua, and Morona-Santiago and the Peruvian records in the

departments of San Martín, Ucayali, Cusco, Pasco and Junín

(Duellman, op. cit.; Lehr 2001. Herpetol. Rev. 32:130-132). Speci-

mens reported herein constitute the first locality within the prov-

ince of Zamora-Chinchipe, partially filling the gap between Ecuad-

orian and Peruvian records. This locality is the westernmost record

of the species, extending its range ca. 230 km SSW from the near-

est locality in the province of Morona-Santiago (Macas; Duellman,

op. cit.).

Submitted by DIEGO F. CISNEROS-HEREDIA, College of

Biological and Environmental Sciences, Universidad San Fran-

cisco de Quito, Ave. Interoceánica y calle Diego de Robles, Cam-

pus Cumbayá, Edif. Maxwell. Casilla Postal 17-12-841, Quito,

Ecuador; e-mail: diegofrancisco_cisneros@yahoo.com.

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