Pristimantis avicuporum (Duellman and Pramuk, 1999)

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

Eleutherodactylus avicuporum Duellman and Pramuk, 1999, Sci. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Univ. Kansas, 13: 20. Holotype: LSUMZ 39365, by original designation. Type locality: "12 km (by trail) E la Peca (05° 36′ S, 78° 19′ W, 1700 m), Provincia Bagua, Departamento Amazonas, Peru".

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

Pristimantis (Pristimantis) avicuporumHedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 120. See comment under Pristimantis regarding subgenera. 

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Known only from the region of the type locality in the Province of Bagua, Department of Amazonas, Peru.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Peru

Endemic: Peru

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus conspicillatus group according to the original publication. In the Pristimantis conspicillatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 120, and Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 125. See Duellman and Lehr, 2009, Terrest.-breeding Frogs in Peru: 147-148, for brief account.

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