Pristimantis imitatrix (Duellman, 1978)

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

Eleutherodactylus imitatrix Duellman, 1978, Herpetologica, 34: 265. Holotype: KU 171892, by original designation. Type locality: "Finca Panguana on the Río Llullapichis, 4-5 km upstream from the Río Pachitea, elevation 200 m, Departamento Huánuco, Peru (08° 36′ S; 74° 57′ W)".

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) imitatrixLynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154; Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 226.

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

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

English Names

Imitator Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 75).

Distribution

Associated with streams and flooded habitats in premontane and lowland forest in the Peruvian Amazon of Loreto and Huánuco Departments in northern and central Peru within approximately 105,079 square km, at elevations of 130–1,200 m. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Peru

Endemic: Peru

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group. Distribution expanded by Duellman, 1993, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 21: 149. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 226. De la Riva, Köhler, Lötters, and Reichle, 2000, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 14: 57, and Köhler, 2000, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 48: 69, consider this species possibly to occur in Bolivia. Duellman, 2005, Cusco Amazonico: 269–270, provided an account (adultl morphology and life history). 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. See Duellman and Lehr, 2009, Terrest.-breeding Frogs in Peru: 182-183, for brief account.  Ortega-Andrade, Deichmann, and Chaparro, 2021, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 21: 41–64, discussed Pristimantis imitatrix, previously confused with Pristimantis academicus and the newly named Pristimantis gagliardi and Pristimantis okmoi, and provided comparative morphology and morphometrics, as well as molecular markers and a discussion of the range. 

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