Pristimantis rozei (Rivero, 1961)

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

Eleutherodactylus rozei Rivero, 1961, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 126: 73. Holotype: MBUCV 2018, by original designation. Type locality: "Curucuruma, Edo. Aragua", Venezuela.

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) rozeiLynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 232.

Pristimantis rozeiHeinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104: 10094; Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.

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

English Names

Roze's Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 79).

Distribution

Vicinity of the type locality (Curucuruma, Cordillera de la Costa, Aragua, Venezuela). See comment. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Venezuela

Endemic: Venezuela

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 232. La Marca, 1992, Cuad. Geograf., Mérida, 9: 42–43, commented on the distinctiveness of this taxon from Eleutherodactylus bicumulus and disputed the identification of the frogs reported as Eleutherodactylus rozei by Péfaur and Diaz de Pascual, 1982, in Salinas (ed.), Zool. Neotropical, 1: 237. Possibly conspecific with Eleutherodactylus reticulatus according to Lynch and La Marca, 1993, Caribb. J. Sci., 29: 133–146. Murphy, 1997, Amph. Rept. Trinidad Tobago: 82–83, provided an account for a taxon similar to this species from northern Tobago, which was subsequently named as Eleutherodactylus turpinorum. 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: 128. See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 125, for comments on range,  literature, and systematics, and suggesting that a record from Nirgua Massif, Yaracuy, Venezuela, is based on Pristimantis cf. stenodiscus

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