Tachiramantis prolixodiscus (Lynch, 1978)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Brachycephaloidea > Family: Strabomantidae > Subfamily: Pristimantinae > Genus: Tachiramantis > Species: Tachiramantis prolixodiscus

Eleutherodactylus prolixodiscus Lynch, 1978, Copeia, 1978: 17. Holotype: KU 132726, by original designation. Type locality: "30 km ENE Bucaramanga, road to Cucata, Departamento Santander, Colombia, 2,485 m".

Eleutherodactylus chlorosoma Rivero, 1984 "1982", Mem. Soc. Cienc. Nat. La Salle, 42: 59. Holotype: UPRM 4958, by original designation. Type locality: "La Loma, entre el Zumbador y Quiniquera, Ed. Mérida, Venezuela, 2225 m." Synonymy by Lynch, 2003, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 27: 453.

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) prolixodiscusLynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154; Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 231.

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

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

Pristimantis (Pristimantis) prolixodiscusHedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 123.

Tachiramantis prolixodiscus  Heinicke, Barrio-Amorós, and Hedges, 2015, Zootaxa, 3986: 160. 

English Names

Bucaramanga Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 78).

Zumbador Robber Frog (Eleutherodactylus chlorosoma [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 73).

Distribution

Northern Cordillera Oriental of Colombia and adjacent Táchira, Barinas, and Mérida, Venezuela, 2300–2485 m.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia, Venezuela

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group, Eleutherodacytlus lacrimosus assemblage, according to Heyer and Hardy, 1991, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 104: 444. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 231. The frogs from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta referred to this species by Lynch, 1978, Copeia, 1978: 18, are of a distinct species according to J. D. Lynch in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 314. Barrio-Amorós, 1999 "1998", Acta Biol. Venezuelica, 18: 52, 54, commented on the Venezuelan distribution (as both Eleutherodactylus prolixodiscus and Eleutherodactylus chlorosoma). Lynch, 2003, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 27: 456, discussed the species. In the Pristimantis lacrimosus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 123, and of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 126. See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 31–32, for comments on range, taxonomy, and literature.

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