Check List 17(2): 407-414, doi: 10.15560/17.2.407
New localities, range extension, natural history, and conservation status of Nymphargus mixomaculatus (Guayasamin, Lehr, Rodriguez & Aguilar, 2006)
expand article infoPablo Javier Venegas‡§, Luis Alberto García-Ayachi§‡
‡ Instituto Peruano de Herpetología, Lima, Peru§ División de Herpetología, Centro de Ornitología y Biodiversidad, Lima, Peru

Corresponding author: Pablo Javier Venegas ( pvenegas@corbidi.org )

Academic editor: Daniel Passos
© Pablo Javier Venegas, Luis Alberto García-Ayachi.
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Citation: Venegas PJ, García-Ayachi LA (2021) New localities, range extension, natural history, and conservation status of Nymphargus mixomaculatus (Guayasamin, Lehr, Rodriguez & Aguilar, 2006). Check List 17(2): 407-414. https://doi.org/10.15560/17.2.407
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Abstract

We provide information on the distribution, natural history, and conservation status of Nymphargus mixomaculatus (Guayasamin, Lehr, Rodriguez & Aguilar, 2006), a species from central Peru which is currently considered as Critically Endangered. We report four new localities and extend the altitudinal distribution by 430 m and the geographic range by 513 km in a straight line northwest of the previous, only known locality. Furthermore, based on our new data and following the criteria and categories of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, we suggest that N. mixomaculatus should be recategorized as Vulnerable.

Keywords
Centrolenidae, glass frog, habitat lost, IUCN Red List, montane forest, Peru, protected areas