Pristimantis nietoi Arteaga-Navarro, Pyron, Peñafiel, Romero-Barreto, Culebras, Bustamante, Yánez-Muñoz, and Guayasamin, 2016

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

Pristimantis nietoi Arteaga-Navarro, Pyron, Peñafiel, Romero-Barreto, Culebras, Bustamante, Yánez-Muñoz, and Guayasamin, 2016, PLoS One, 11(4: e0151746): 21. Holotype: MZUTI 3913, by original designation. Type locality: "Reserva Itapoa (00.51307 N 79.13401 W; 321 m), Esmeraldas province, Ecuador." Zoobank publication registration: 1192CFA6-7964-441E-BE22-6DC932A748E0

English Names

Nieto's Rainfrog (original publication). 

Distribution

Chocoan lowlands of northwestern Ecuador (Esmeraldas and Pichincha provinces). 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ecuador

Endemic: Ecuador

Comment

In the Pristimantis unistrigatus group and most similar to Pristimantis walkeri and Pristimantis luteolateralis, according to the original publication. 

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