Pristimantis atratus (Lynch, 1979)

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

Eleutherodactylus atratus Lynch, 1979, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 66: 5. Holotype: USNM 199675, by original designation. Type locality: "Suro Rancho, Provincia Morona-Santiago, Ecuador, 2683 m."

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) atratusLynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154. Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 220.

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

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

Pristimantis (Huicundomantis) atratus — Páez and Ron, 2019, ZooKeys, 868: 27. 

English Names

Santiago Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 72).

Distribution

2195-2850 m elevation on the Amazonian slopes of the eastern Andean Cordillera (Cordillera de Matanga to the Abra de Zamora) in southern Ecuador.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ecuador

Endemic: Ecuador

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 220. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) unistrigatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 128. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Eleutherodactylus atratus) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 319. See comments by Székely, Eguiguren, Ordóñez-Delgado, Armijos-Ojeda, and Székely, 2020, PLoS One, 15(9: e0238306): 52–53, regarding the population in the Abra de Zamora, Ecuador.

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