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, Zootaxa, 4514: 494.
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. Terra typica: “
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Diagnosis: (1) large size (maximum recorded:
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); (3) tympanic membrane and tympanic annulus distinct, about 1/3 (females and juveniles) and 1/2 (males) of eye length, supratympanic fold present (
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); (4) snout short, subacuminate in dorsal view (
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), round in lateral profile (
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); (5) cranial crests absent; upper eyelid broader than interocular distance (
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); (6) dentigerous process of vomers prominent, triangular, located posteromedial to choanae, bearing a transverse row of 813 vomerine teeth along posterior border (
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); (7) fingers long and slender, relative length of fingers III&gt; IV = I&gt; II; subarticular tubercles round, prominent, simple: a single one in fingers I and II, two in fingers III and IV; supernumerary tubercles absent; tips of fingers only slightly enlarged, round (as long as broad), with weak circumferential grooves; no lateral fringes; thenar tubercle large, elongated, slightly longer than palmar tubercle; palmar tubercle rounded, bifid, with the outer portion slightly larger than the inner one (
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); no ulnar tubercles; (8) toes long and slender, lacking lateral fringes and webbing; toe tips enlarged, round (specially enlarged in toes I, II, and III), with barely appreciable disc structure; no tubercles on heel or tarsus; supernumerary tubercles absent; subarticular tubercles longer than wide, prominent, simple: a single one in toes I and II, two in toes III and V, three in toe IV; two metatarsal tubercles, the inner elongate, prominent, and five times larger than the outer, which is relatively low and flat; relative length of toes IV&gt; V&gt; III&gt; II&gt; I (
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); (9) males with vocal slits; subgular vocal sac.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="2BD6835E526E5977FF69F982E62AFE28" bold="true" box="[152,279,1555,1579]" pageId="3" pageNumber="120">FIGURE 2.</emphasis>
Dorsal and ventral view of:
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holotype of
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<emphasis id="2BD6835E526E5977FD2EF982E4E2FE28" box="[735,991,1555,1579]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="120">Eleutherodactylus dolops</emphasis>
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(KU143505) and,
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holotype of
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<emphasis id="2BD6835E526E5977FAB8F982E63BFE4C" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="120">Hylodes verrucosus</emphasis>
(MNCN1599)
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.
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differs from most of its congeneric species by lacking the general morphological appearance based on stocky bodies, short legs, and not expanded digital tips (“phrynopoid” ecomorph; see
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). In contrast,
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, presents a slender body shape, longer legs and digits, and larger size (reaching up to
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) than those stocky-bodied congeneric species. The most morphologically similar species to
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is
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(
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)
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(appendix 1), the only other large species of the genus (maximum size recorded:
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), which is included in the subgroup I or
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species group
<emphasis id="2BD6835E526E5977FD13F8DFE431FF6B" box="[738,780,1870,1896]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="120">fide</emphasis>
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and
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. The presence of very large nasal bones was considered a synapomorphy for this species group (
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). Additionally, males of
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<emphasis id="2BD6835E526E5977FF46F806E621FFB3" box="[183,284,1942,1968]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="120">N. babax</emphasis>
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show vocal slits as in
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<emphasis id="2BD6835E526E5977FDD1F806E5A5FFB3" box="[544,664,1942,1968]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="120">N. philippi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
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;
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). However, molecular data have never been employed to examine the monophyly of this group. The most conspicuous diagnostic traits to differentiate both species are detailed by
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as follows:
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<emphasis id="2BD6835E526E5977FC59F84EE32FFFFB" box="[936,1042,2014,2040]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="120">N. babax</emphasis>
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presents low and flattened warts, sometimes forming dorsolateral ridges, whereas
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<emphasis id="2BD6835E52695970FD4AF8F9E409FF82" box="[699,820,1895,1921]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="121">N. philippi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(as
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<emphasis id="2BD6835E52695970FC95F8F9E4EDFF82" box="[868,976,1895,1921]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="121">N. dolops</emphasis>
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) has the skin pustulated; digital discs on the hands more expanded in
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<emphasis id="2BD6835E52695970FE11F81DE564FFA6" box="[480,601,1931,1957]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="121">N. philippi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
than in
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<emphasis id="2BD6835E52695970FD48F81DE422FFA6" box="[697,799,1931,1957]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="121">N. babax</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
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<emphasis id="2BD6835E52695970FCDEF81AE329FFA6" box="[815,1044,1931,1957]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="121">Niceforonia philippi</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="2BD6835E52695970FBBCF81DE389FFA6" box="[1101,1204,1931,1957]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="121">N. babax</emphasis>
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occur allopatrically, being
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(
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locality: “Finca La Planada”,
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by road from caserio Chucunés, Municipio Ricaurte,
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,
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”) restricted to the pacific versants of the Andes of
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and
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, at elevations between 1200 and
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asl. Apart from
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<emphasis id="2BD6835E52685971FCF3FF06E441F8B2" box="[770,892,151,177]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">N. philippi</emphasis>
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, only four out of the 14 species of
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<emphasis id="2BD6835E52685971FAE6FF06E2A1F8B2" box="[1303,1436,151,177]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">Niceforonia</emphasis>
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occur in the Amazonian slopes of the Andes:
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<emphasis id="2BD6835E52685971FD64FF2AE5D3F8D7" box="[661,750,187,212]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">N. nana</emphasis>
Goin and Cochran, 1963
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(recorded from Cordillera Oriental,
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),
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<emphasis id="2BD6835E52685971FED0FF4EE6F4F8FA" box="[289,457,223,249]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">N. columbiana</emphasis>
(Werner, 1899)
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[only known from the
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locality at Monte Redondo, Buenavista, Departamento de
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or
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,
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; however, its taxonomic validity is questioned (see
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)],
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<emphasis id="2BD6835E52685971FEB6FEB6E6D6F943" box="[327,491,295,320]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">N. nigrovittata</emphasis>
(Andersson, 1945)
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(ranging across the Amazonian versants of the Andes from
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,
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and
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), and
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<emphasis id="2BD6835E52685971FE17FEDAE5A8F966" box="[486,661,331,357]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">N. elassodiscus</emphasis>
(Lynch, 1973)
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(distributed over the Amazonian slopes of the Andes from
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and
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in
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to Pasto in
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) (
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Acosta-Galvis
<emphasis id="2BD6835E52685971FC05FEFEE311F98A" box="[1012,1068,367,393]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">et al.</emphasis>
2018
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). These species can readily distinguished from
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<emphasis id="2BD6835E52685971FE81FE02E6DAF9AE" box="[368,487,403,429]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">N. philippi</emphasis>
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as they are characterized by having phrynopoid morphology, small size, and the lack of vocal slits in males.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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<emphasis id="2BD6835E52695970FF69F925E62AFECE" bold="true" box="[152,279,1716,1741]" pageId="4" pageNumber="121">FIGURE 3.</emphasis>
From top to bottom: lateral view of the head, palmar tubercles (left hand), and plantar tubercles (right and left foot, respectively) of:
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holotype of
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<emphasis id="2BD6835E52695970FE1CF948E5D3FEF2" box="[493,750,1753,1777]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="121">Eleutherodactylus dolops</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(KU143505) and,
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holotype
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<emphasis id="2BD6835E52695970FBCBF948E23CFEF3" box="[1082,1281,1753,1777]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="121">Hylodes verrucosus</emphasis>
(MNCN1599)
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. The tip of the left fourth finger of the holotype of
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<emphasis id="2BD6835E52695970FD60F96CE5CCFF16" box="[657,753,1789,1813]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="121">E. dolops</emphasis>
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is framed.
</paragraph>
</caption>
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Variation: Males differ from females by the presence of vocal slits and by the size and shape of the tympanic annulus, rounded in males and relatively higher than long in females (
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).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="191D5F4C52685971FF36FDB2E487FBA6" blockId="5.[151,1437,151,1293]" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">
The color pattern illustrated by
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is no longer distinguishable in the MNCN
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specimens, but it is still well preserved in the
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of
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<emphasis id="2BD6835E52685971FD0AFDD6E325FA62" box="[763,1048,583,609]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">Eleutherodactylus dolops</emphasis>
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. The
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of both
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<emphasis id="2BD6835E52685971FB02FDD6E251FA62" box="[1267,1388,583,609]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">H. philippi</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="2BD6835E52685971FF66FDFAE608FA87" box="[151,309,619,644]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">H. verrucosus</emphasis>
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showed a pattern of transversal dark bars on the hindlimbs and, to a lesser extent, on the forelimbs; they had irregular dark blotches on the dorsum, especially marked in the
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of
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<emphasis id="2BD6835E52685971FBBBFD1EE3D7FAAB" box="[1098,1258,655,680]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">H. verrucosus</emphasis>
(
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)
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. The colouration pattern of
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<emphasis id="2BD6835E52685971FD8CFD22E46BFACE" box="[637,854,691,717]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">Niceforonia dolops</emphasis>
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is congruent with that illustrated by
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for
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<emphasis id="2BD6835E52685971FE9EFD46E532FAF3" box="[367,527,727,752]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">H. verrucosus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="2BD6835E52685971FDBBFD46E5F8FAF2" box="[586,709,727,753]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">H. philippi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. The ventral coloration of the
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series of
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<emphasis id="2BD6835E52685971FB3AFD46E205FAF2" box="[1227,1336,727,753]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">E. dolops</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
shows a notable variability. Specimen KU 168811 presents a cream ventral surface with small brown spots, whereas the extension of the brown pigmentation on throat and chest in the other
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specimens cover a great portion of the ventral surface, with dispersed cream dots (isolated or contacting with each other). The posterior half of the venter is uniformly cream, lacking dark spots in most of the specimens (KU 168811, KU 165866, KU 165867, KU 165868, KU 143505), except for KU 143504, which shows a reticulated pattern.
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The types of
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<emphasis id="2BD6835E52685971FEAEFC3EE6E7FBCA" box="[351,474,943,969]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">H. philippi</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="2BD6835E52685971FDE2FC3EE58FFBCB" box="[531,690,943,968]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">H. verrucosus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and those of
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<emphasis id="2BD6835E52685971FCBEFC3EE486FBCA" box="[847,955,943,969]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">E. dolops</emphasis>
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exhibit the same morphology and relative location of the vomerine processes, sharing a row of 813 vomerine teeth along the posterior margin of the vomerine process (
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). No marked differences between the well preserved types of
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<emphasis id="2BD6835E52685971FBECFC66E386FC13" box="[1053,1211,1015,1040]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">H. verrucosus</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="2BD6835E52685971FB02FC66E263FC12" box="[1267,1374,1015,1041]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">E. dolops</emphasis>
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were found. The type of
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<emphasis id="2BD6835E52685971FE9EFB8AE531FC37" box="[367,524,1051,1076]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">H. verrucosus</emphasis>
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, a female, lacks vocal slits and shows a small tympanic annulus, about 1/3 of the eye diameter, such as in the
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of
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<emphasis id="2BD6835E52685971FDAFFBAEE5F5FC5A" box="[606,712,1087,1113]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">E. dolops</emphasis>
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. The
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of
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<emphasis id="2BD6835E52685971FC60FBAEE312FC5B" box="[913,1071,1087,1112]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">H. verrucosus</emphasis>
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is smaller than that of
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<emphasis id="2BD6835E52685971FAC3FBAEE2A0FC5A" box="[1330,1437,1087,1113]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">E. dolops</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(48,9 mm vs. 57,
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respectively).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="51B80CC752685971FF36FB16E632FD0E" pageId="5" pageNumber="122" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="191D5F4C52685971FF36FB16E632FD0E" blockId="5.[151,1437,151,1293]" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">
Distribution:
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<emphasis id="2BD6835E52685971FEAFFB16E57CFCA2" box="[350,577,1159,1185]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">Niceforonia philippi</emphasis>
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is known from a few scattered localities across the eastern Andean foothills of northern
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and southern
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at elevations of
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(
<bibRefCitation id="7D3322BD52685971FC1BFB3AE216FCC6" author="Jimenez de la Espada, M." box="[1002,1323,1194,1221]" pageId="5" pageNumber="122" refId="ref4226" refString="Jimenez de la Espada, M. (1875) Vertebrados del Viaje al Pacifico Verificado de 1862 a 1865 por una Comision de Naturalistas Enviada por el Gobierno Espanol. Batracios. Imprenta Miguel Ginesta, Madrid, 208 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 5769" type="book" year="1875">Jiménez de la Espada, 1875</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="7D3322BD52685971FAC9FB3AE673FCEA" author="Lynch, J. D. &amp; Duellman, W. E." pageId="5" pageNumber="122" pagination="1 - 86" refId="ref4440" refString="Lynch, J. D. &amp; Duellman, W. E. (1980) The Eleutherodactylus of the Amazonian slopes of the Ecuadorian Andes (Anura: Leptodactylidae). Miscellaneous Publication, Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, 69, 1 - 86. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 16222" type="journal article" year="1980">Lynch &amp; Duellman, 1980</bibRefCitation>
;
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Ruiz-Carranza
<emphasis id="2BD6835E52685971FDF2FB5EE506FCEA" box="[515,571,1231,1257]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="122">et al.</emphasis>
, 1996
</bibRefCitation>
;
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;
<bibRefCitation id="7D3322BD52685971FC6CFB5EE39BFCEA" author="Mueses-Cisneros, J. J." box="[925,1190,1230,1257]" pageId="5" pageNumber="122" pagination="229 - 242" refId="ref4504" refString="Mueses-Cisneros, J. J. (2005) Fauna anfibia del Valle de Sibundoy, Putumayo-Colombia. Caldasia, 27, 229 - 242." type="journal article" year="2005">Mueses-Cisneros, 2005</bibRefCitation>
; Acosta Galvis, 2021) (
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).
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</subSubSection>
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