Nymphargus balionotus

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

Familia: Centrolenidae
Subfamilia: Centroleninae
Tribus: Centrolenini
Genus: Nymphargus
Species: Nymphargus balionotus

Name

Nymphargus balionotus (Duellman, 1981)

• Holotype: KU 164702, adult ♂, collected by by William E. Duellman, Alan H. Savitzky, and John E. Simmons on 7 April 1975.
• Type locality: “3.5 km (by road) northeast of Mindo, 1540 m, Provincia de Pichincha, Ecuador (00°01S,78°44′W)”.

Combinations

• Centrolenella balionota Duellman, 1981: 1 [original combination]
• Cochranella balionota — Ruiz-Carranza & Lynch, 1991: 21 [subsequent combination]
• Centrolene balionotum — Cisneros-Heredia & McDiarmid, 2006: 1 [subsequent combination]
• "Cochranella" balionota — Guayasamin, Castroviejo-Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada & Vilà, 2009: 23 [subsequent combination, incerti generis]
• Nymphargus balionotus — Guayasamin, Cisneros-Heredia, Vieira, Kohn, Gavilanes, Lynch, Hamilton & Maynard, 2019: 14

References

Primary references

• Duellman, W.E. 1981. Three new species of centrolenid frogs from the Pacific versant of Ecaudor and Colombia. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural History, The University of Kansas 88: 1–9. 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. 
• Cisneros-Heredia, D.F. & McDiarmid, R.W. 2006. A new species of the genus Centrolene (Amphibia: Anura: Centrolenidae) from Ecuador with comments on the taxonomy and biogeography of glassfrogs. Zootaxa 1244(1): 1–32. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1244.1.1 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. 
• Guayasamin, J.M., Cisneros-Heredia, D.F., Vieira, J., Kohn, S., Gavilanes, G., Lynch, R.L., Hamilton, P.S. & Maynard, R.J. 2019. A new glassfrog (Centrolenidae) from the Chocó-Andean Río Manduriacu Reserve, Ecuador, endangered by mining. PeerJ 7: e6400. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.6400 Reference page. 

Additional references

• 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. 

Links

• IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group. 2020. IUCN: Nymphargus balionotus  (Endangered). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T54948A85872712. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T54948A85872712.en. Accessed on 25 January 2023.

Vernacular names

English: Mindo Glassfrog
español: Rana de Cristal de Mindo