Pristimantis anotis (Walker and Test, 1955)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Brachycephaloidea > Family: Strabomantidae > Subfamily: Pristimantinae > Genus: Pristimantis > Species: Pristimantis anotis

Eleutherodactylus anotis Walker and Test, 1955, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 561: 7. Holotype: UMMZ 109876, by original designation. Type locality: "from a small stream at Rancho Grande, 1090 m., Estado Aragua, Venezuela".

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) anotisLynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 220.

Pristimantis anotisHeinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.

Pristimantis (Pristimantis) anotisHedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 128.

English Names

Aragua Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 72).

Distribution

Known only from the vicinity of the type locality, Rancho Grande, 1090 m elevation, in the State of Aragua, Venezuela.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Venezuela

Endemic: Venezuela

Comment

See account by Rivero, 1961, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 126: 81. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 220. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) unistrigatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 128. Not assignable to species group according to Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 127. See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 112–113, for comments on range, possible extinction, and literature with special reference to Venezuela.

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