Centrolene ballux

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anura
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Anura

Centrolene ballux (Duellman & Burrowes, 1989)

Holotype: KU 164725, adult ♂, collected by William E. Duellman, John E. Simmons, and Linda Trueb on 8 May 1975.
Type locality: “14 km (by road) west of Chiriboa (00°18′ S, 78°49′ W), 1960 m, Provincia de Pichincha, Ecuador”.

Centrolenella ballux Duellman & Burrowes, 1989: 2 [original combination]
Centrolene ballux — Ruiz-Carranza & Lynch, 1991: 19 [subsequent combination]
"Centrolene" ballux — Guayasamin, Castroviejo-Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada & Vilà, 2009: 54 [subsequent combination, incerti generis]

Duellman, W.E. & Burrowes, P.A. 1989. New species of frogs, Centrolenella, from the Pacific versant of Ecuador and southern Colombia. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas 132: 1–14. BHL
Ruiz-Carranza, P.M. & Lynch, J.D. 1991. Ranas Centrolenidae de Colombia I. Propuesta de una nueva clasificación genérica. Lozania 57: 1–30. Reference page.
Guayasamin, J.M, Castroviejo-Fisher, S., Trueb, L., Ayarzagüena, J., Rada, M. & Vilà, C. 2009. Phylogenetic systematics of glassfrogs (Amphibia: Centrolenidae) and their sister taxon Allophryne ruthveni. Zootaxa 2100(1): 1–97. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2100.1.1 Reference page.

Catenazzi, A., Von May, R., Lehr, E., Gagliardi-Urrutia, G. & Guayasamin, J.M. 2012. A new, high-elevation glassfrog (Anura: Centrolenidae) from Manu National Park, southern Peru. Zootaxa 3388(1): 56–68. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3388.1.5 Reference page.
Guayasamin, J.M., Cisneros-Heredia, D.F., McDiarmid, R.W., Peña, P. & Hutter, C.R. 2020. Glassfrogs of Ecuador: Diversity, evolution, and conservation. Diversity 12(222): 1–285. DOI: 10.3390/d12060222 Reference page.

IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group. 2019. IUCN: Centrolene ballux (Endangered). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T54907A85877221. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T54907A85877221.en. Accessed on 29 January 2023.

English: Gold-dust Glassfrog
español: Rana de Cristal Polvo de Oro