Pristimantis bogotensis (Peters, 1863)

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

Hylodes Bogotensis Peters, 1863, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1863: 407. Syntypes: ZMB 4901 (3 specimens), 4902 (4 specimens) (and 6 other specimens not located) according to Bauer, Günther, and Klipfel, 1995, in Bauer et al. (eds.), Herpetol. Contr. W.C.H. Peters: 45. Type locality: "Umbebung von St. Fé de Bogotá" (= Vicinity of Santa Fé de Bogotá), Cundinamarca, Colombia.

Eleutherodactylus bogotensisStejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582-583, by implication; Dunn, 1944, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 6

Hylodes fasslianus Werner, 1916, Zool. Anz., 47: 303. Types: Brünn Landsmuseum, by original designation; current location or if specimen(s) extant not known. Type locality: "Bogota", Cundinamarca, Colombia. Synonymy by Dunn, 1944, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 6: 75; Cochran and Goin, 1970, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 288: 403-405.: 75.

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) bogotensisLynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154; Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 221.

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

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

English Names

Bogota Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 73).

Distribution

Bogotá area, Cundinamarca, Colombia, 2600–3400 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia

Endemic: Colombia

Comment

See account by Cochran and Goin, 1970, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 288: 403-405. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 221. Lynch and Renjifo, 2001, Guia Anf. Rept. Bogota: 53, presented a brief account and photograph. 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.

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