Pristimantis ecuadorensis Guayasamin, Hutter, Tapia, Culebras, Peñafiel, Pyron, Morochz, Funk, and Arteaga-Navarro, 2017

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

Pristimantis ecuadorensis Guayasamin, Hutter, Tapia, Culebras, Peñafiel, Pyron, Morochz, Funk, and Arteaga-Navarro, 2017, PLoS One, 12(3:e0172615): 10. Holotype: CJ 4084, by original publication. Type locality: "a farm (0.424° S, 78.957° W; 1480 m) owned by César Tapia, ca. 3 km NE of San Francisco de Las Pampas, Cotopaxi province, Ecuador". Zoobank publication registration: A1586F9A-8C91-417E-A0E1-47898A9086CF

Common Names

Ecuadorian Rainfrog (original publication; Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 3: xxxiv).

Cutín Ecuatoriano (Spanish: Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 3: xxxiv).

Distribution

Western slopes of the Cordillera Occidental in the provinces of Cotopaxi and Pichincha, at elevations between 1390 and 2610 m. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ecuador

Endemic: Ecuador

Comment

Prior to its naming, confused with Pristimantis ornatissimus. Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 3: 150–151, provided an account, with photographs, summarizing morphological identification, systematics, natural history, distribution (including a dot map for Ecuador), conservation, and also (pp. 465–465) described the advertisement call.

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