Pristimantis churuwiai Brito-M., Batallas-R., and Yánez-Muñoz, 2017

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Brachycephaloidea > Family: Craugastoridae > Subfamily: Pristimantinae > Genus: Pristimantis > Species: Pristimantis churuwiai

Pristimantis churuwiai Brito-M., Batallas-Revelo, and Yánez-Muñoz, 2017, Neotropical Biodiversity, 3: 128. Holotype: DHMECN 12243, by original designation. Type locality: "en el río Sardinayacu (2º04′ 45.3″ S; 78º09′ 37.3″ W, 1400 m), Parque Nacional Sangay, parroquia Sinaí, cantón Morona, provincia de Morona Santiago, República del Ecuador". 

Common Names

Chruruwia’s Rainfrog (original publication; Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 3: xxxiii).

Cutín del Chruruwia (Spanish: Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 3: xxxiii).

Distribution

Amazonian slope of the Cordillera de Kutukú in Morona-Santiago, Tungurahua, and Zamora-Chinchipe provinces, Ecuador, 1300 to 2190 m elevation. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ecuador

Endemic: Ecuador

Comment

Assigned to the Pristimantis frater group in the original publication. Unassigned to species group by Mônico, Koch, Ferrão, Fernandes, Marques, Chaparro, Rodrigues, Lima, and Fouquet, 2024, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 108203: 1–19, due to a lack of molecular data. Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 3: 115–116, provided an account with photographs which summarized morphological identification, systematics, natural history, distribution (including a dot map for Ecuador), and conservation. 

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