Pristimantis citriogaster (Duellman, 1992)

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

Eleutherodactylus citriogaster Duellman, 1992, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 6: 24. Holotype: KU 212277, by original designation. Type locality: "Cataratas Ahuashiyacu (06° 30′ S, 76° 20′ W, 730 m), 14 km (by road) northeast of Tarapoto, Provincia de San Martín, Departamento de San Martín, Peru".

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

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

Pristimantis (Pristimantis) citriogasterHedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 120.

Common Names

Yellow-bellied Rainfrog (Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 3: xxxiii).

Cutín de Vientre Amarillo (Spanish: Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 3: xxxiii).

Throated Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 73).

Distribution

Lower humid montane forest on the slopes of a ridge northeast of Tarapoto, Departamento de San Martín in northern Peru; east face of the Cordillera Oriental in Ecuador (Napo, Monrona Santiago, and Zamora Chinchipe provinces), 600 to 800 m elevation. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ecuador, Peru

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus conspicillatus group, most closely allied with Eleutherodactylus lymani and Eleutherodactylus condor, according to the original publication. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) conspicillatus series, Eleutherodactylus conspicillatus group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 222. See Duellman and Pramuk, 1999, Sci. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Univ. Kansas, 13: 26, for account. In the Pristimantis conspicillatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 120, and Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 125. See Duellman and Lehr, 2009, Terrest.-breeding Frogs in Peru: 160–161, for brief account. Camacho-Badani, Yánez-Muñoz, and Ron, 2012, Check List, 8: 513–515, provided the first record for Ecuador and commented on the range. In the Pristimantis conspicillatus group, Pristimantis conspicillatus 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. Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 3: 117–118, 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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