An enigmatic new species of Glassfrog (Amphibia: Anura: Centrolenidae) from the Amazonian Andean slopes of Ecuador

Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia; Paúl Meza-Ramos

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1485.1.3

An enigmatic new species of Glassfrog (Amphibia: Anura: Centrolenidae) from the Amazonian Andean slopes of Ecuador

Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia^*
, Paúl Meza-Ramos

^*Corresponding author for this work

Smithsonian Institution
Museo Ecuatoriano de Ciencias Naturales
King's College London

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Abstract

We describe a new species of frog of the family Centrolenidae, Cochranella amelie n. sp., from the central Amazonian Andean slopes, collected at the Oglan River, Province of Pastaza, Ecuador. This new species shows a very unusual combination of characters (lavender dorsum in preservative, absence of a humeral spine in adult males, transparent parietal peritoneum, white visceral peritonea, and bulbous liver). The relationships of this new species of Glassfrog are uncertain, and its assignment to Cochranella is preliminary.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	33-41
Number of pages	9
Journal	Zootaxa
Issue number	1485
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1485.1.3
State	Published - 28 May 2007

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Cochranella amelie
Ecuador
New species
Oglan river
Pastaza
Taxonomy

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An enigmatic new species of Glassfrog (Amphibia: Anura: Centrolenidae) from the Amazonian Andean slopes of Ecuador

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