Pristimantis pluvian Oliveira, Alves da Silva, Guimarães, Penhacek, Martínez, Rodrigues, Santana, and Hernández-Ruz, 2020

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

Pristimantis pluvian Araujo de Oliveira, Silva, Guimarães, Penhacek, Martínez, Rodrigues, Santana, and Hernández-Ruz, 2020, PLoS One, 15 (3: e0229971): 17. Holotype: ABAM 3221, by original designation. Type locality: "Ilha Juruena, from the Cotriguaçu municipality, Mato Grosso state, Brazil (9˚55’13.32”S 58˚ 14’29.45”W)". Zoobank publication registration: A1A7A538-68C8-401B-B706-6C7C16D87296

English Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Municipalities of Cotriguaçu, Ipiranga do Norte and Paranaíta in Mato Grosso state, Brazil. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

In the Craugastor conspicillatus group according to the original publication, where it was diagnosed on the basis of molecules, morphology, and call characteristics. In the Pristimantis conspicillatus group, Pristimantis fenestratus clade of Fouquet, Réjaud, Rodrigues, Ron, Chaparro, Osorno-Muñoz, Werneck, Hrbek, Lima, Camacho-Badani, Jaramillo-Martinez, and Chave, 2022, Syst. Biodiversity, 20(1: 2130464): 1–16, who reported on phylogenetics and biogeography and implied that Pristimantis pluvian is a synonym of Pristimantis fenestratus, but did not make the taxonomic change. 

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