Lynch's giant glass frog

(Centrolene lynchi)

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Description

Centrolene lynchi,sometimes known as the Lynch's giant glass frog,is a species of frog in the Centrolenidae family.It is found in the Risaralda Department on the Cordillera Occidental of Colombia and on the western Andes in the Pichincha and Cotopaxi Provinces,Ecuador.It is named after John Lynch,a herpetologist who collected the first specimens of this species.Centrolene scirtetes might be a junior synonym of this species.

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum:
Class: Amphibia
Order:Anura
Family:Centrolenidae
Genus:Centrolene
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