Pristimantis ceuthospilus (Duellman and Wild, 1993)

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

Eleutherodactylus ceuthospilus Duellman and Wild, 1993, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 157: 8. Holotype: KU 219775, by original designation. Type locality: "west slope of the Cordillera de Huancabamba, 15.8 km (by road) ENE of Canchaque (05° 23′ S, 79° 34′ W, 1800 m), Provincia Huancabamba, Departamento Piura, Peru".

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) ceuthospilusLynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 222.

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

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

English Names

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

Distribution

Elevations of 1735–2780 m in humid montane forest on the western slopes of the Cordillera de Huancabamba and at 1500 m at a site 12 km west of Lamas on the Pacific slopes of the Cordillera Occidental in northern Peru.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Peru

Endemic: Peru

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to the original publication. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 222. See account by Duellman and Pramuk, 1999, Sci. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Univ. Kansas, 13: 1-78. Duellman and Lehr, 2007, Sci. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Univ. Kansas, 39: 1-13, briefly discussed the range. 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 photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Eleutherodactylus ceuthospilus) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 326. See Duellman and Lehr, 2009, Terrest.-breeding Frogs in Peru: 158-159, for brief account.

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