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Herpetological Review 36(1): 74; 2005
© 2005 by Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles
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 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).
Submitted by DIEGO F. CISNEROS-HEREDIA, College of
Biological and Environmental Sciences, Universidad San Francisco
de Quito, Ave. Interoceánica y calle Diego de Robles, Campus
Cumbayá, Edif. Maxwell. Casilla Postal 17-12-841, Quito,
Ecuador; e-mail: diegofrancisco_cisneros@yahoo.com.