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