Pristimantis chloronotus (Lynch, 1969)

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

Eleutherodactylus chloronotus Lynch, 1969, J. Herpetol., 3: 140. Holotype: KU 117519, by original designation. Type locality: "3 km E Papallacta, Provincia Napo, Ecuador, 2900 m."

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) chloronotusLynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154; Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 222.

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

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

English Names

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

Distribution

Subparamo and upper humid montane forest (2285–3350 m) along the eastern front of the Andes from southern Colombia (Nariño and Putumayo) southward to the Pastaza depression (Ecuador).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia, Ecuador

Comment

See account by Lynch and Duellman, 1980, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 69: 11-18. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 222. Mueses-Cisneros, 2005, Caldasia, 27: 235, provided a record for Putumayo, Colombia. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) unistrigatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 128. Not assignable to a species group according to Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 127.

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