Amphibians from Serrania de Las Quinchas, in the mid-Magdalena river valley, Colombia
Author
Ovalle-Pacheco, Andrés
Author
Camacho-Rozo, Claudia
Author
Arroyo, Sandy
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http://dx.doi.org/10.15560/15.3.387
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10.15560/15.3.387
1809-127X
Hyloxalus vergeli
Hellmich, 1940
Figure 6
Hyloxalus vergeli
Hellmich 1940: 122
.
Colostethus vergeli
—
Edwards 1971: 148
.
Hyloxalus vergeli
—
Grant et al. 2006
.
In this study, males SVL = 22.9–28.2, females SVL =
24.9–30.5mm
. Head as wide as the body, relatively small eyes; 2 dermal scutes on the distal end of the fingers; toes with basal webbing; dorsum dark or light brown, light dorsolateral line and brown or gray venter in males, cream with brown marbling in females. A total of 28 individuals were found, only observed in riparian forest (Stations 2 and 3). This is the first record for the species in
Boyacá department
, while it was formerly reported in the departments of
Cundinamarca
,
Huila
and
Tolima
, on the eastern slope of the Cordillera Central, and the west- ern slope of the Cordillera Oriental along the
Magdalena
River inter-Andean Valley (
Acosta-Galvis 2019
).