Abstract

Analyses of morphometrics, structural characters, and coloration resulted in the restriction of Gastrotheca argenteovirens (Boettger) to the western slopes of the Cordillera Central in central and southern Colombia. The population on the Pacific slopes of the Cordillera Occidental in southern Colom- bia is recognized as a new species, G. trachyceps. Gastrotheca argenteovirens dunni Lutz from the northern part of the Cordillera Central is accorded specific status. Boettger (1892) named Hyla argenteovi- rens from Popayan, Colombia; in his de-

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