Pristimantis leucopus (Lynch, 1976)

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

Eleutherodactylus leucopus Lynch, 1976, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 88: 351. Holotype: USNM 197927, by original designation. Type locality: "Santa Barbara, Napo Prov., Ecuador, 2590 m."

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) leucopusLynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154; Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 227.

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

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

English Names

Rio Chingual Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 76).

Distribution

Intermediate elevations (2440–2700 m) in the valley of the Río Chingual at localities in both Colombia and Ecuador.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia, Ecuador

Comment

See brief account by Lynch and Duellman, 1980, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 69: 41. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 227. Almendáriz C. and Orcés, 2004, Rev. Politécnica, Quito, 25: 123-124, provided distributional data for Ecuador. 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 note by Guayasamin and Funk, 2009, Zootaxa, 2220: 41-66, on this species at the Yanayacu Biological Station, Napo, Ecuador.

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