Espadarana audax

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: Cochranellini
Genus: Espadarana
Species: Espadarana audax

Name

Espadarana audax (Lynch & Duellman, 1973)

• Holotype: KU 146624, adult ♂, collected by William E. Duellman on 7 April 1972.
• Type locality: “Salto de Agua, 2.5 km NNE Río Reventador on Quito-Lago Agrio road, 1660 m, Provincia Napo, Ecuador”.

Combinations

• Centrolenella audax Lynch & Duellman, 1973: 16 [original combination]
• Centrolene audax — Ruiz-Carranza & Lynch, 1991: 19 [subsequent combination]
• "Centrolene" audax — Guayasamin, Castroviejo-Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada & Vilà, 2009: 54 [subsequent combination, incerti generis]
• Espadarana audax — Twomey, Delia & Castroviejo-Fisher, 2014: 57 [subsequent combination]

Synonyms

• Centrolene fernandoi Duellman & Schulte, 1993: 4 [synonymised by Cisneros-Heredia & Guayasamin (2014: 161)]
  • Holotype: KU 211770, adult ♂, collected by William E. Duellman and Rainer Schulte on 5 February 1989.
  • Type locality: “west slope of Abra Tangarana, 7 km (by road) northeast of San Juan de Pacaysapa (06°12′S, 76°44′W, 1080 m), Provincia Lamas, Departamento San Martín, Perú”.

References

Primary references

• Lynch, J.D. & Duellman, W.E. 1973. A review of the centrolenid frogs of Ecuador, with descriptions of new species. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural History, The University of Kansas 16: 1–66. BHL Reference page. 
• 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. 
• Duellman, W.E. & Schulte, R. 1993. New species of centrolenid frogs from northern Peru. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural History, The University of Kansas 155: 1–33. BHL 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. 
• Twomey, E., Delia, J. & Castroviejo-Fisher, S. 2014. A review of northern Peruvian glassfrogs (Centrolenidae), with the description of four new remarkable species. Zootaxa 3851(1): 1–87. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3851.1.1 Reference page. 
• Cisneros-Heredia, D.F. & Guayasamin, J.M. 2014. Notes on the taxonomy of some glassfrogs from the Andes of Peru and Ecuador (Amphibia: Centrolenidae). Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 54(12): 161–168. DOI: 10.1590/0031-1049.2014.54.12 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. 2018. IUCN: Espadarana audax  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T78163103A78162747. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T78163103A78162747.en. Accessed on 28 January 2023.

Vernacular names

English: Daring Glassfrog
español: Rana de Cristal Audaz