Abstract
The Suretka glass frog, Hyalinobatrachium chirripoi, has been recently rediscovered in the southeastern region of Costa Rica. This species was last reported in Costa Rica in the 1950's. H. chirripoi is distinguished from H. colymbiphyllum, which appears to be its most closely Costa Rican related taxon, by having extensive webbing between fingers II-III.
Highlights
Taylor (1958) described these specimens as a new species, Cochranella chirripoi. Later this species was referred to the genus Centrolenella (Goin 1964), and in 1991 it was placed into the new, and currently recognized genus Hyalinobatrachium (Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch 1991)
On July 15, 2001, I surveyed a tributary of the Río Banano, Limón Province, Costa Rica
The liver, stomach, and intestinal tract were covered in a white visceral peritoneum
Summary
Taylor collected nine specimens of an unusual centrolenid frog near Suretka, Limón Province, Costa Rica. Taylor (1958) described these specimens as a new species, Cochranella chirripoi. On July 15, 2001, I surveyed a tributary of the Río Banano, Limón Province, Costa Rica. One calling male was collected (UCR 17066) from the underside of a palm leaf overhanging the water.
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