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Pristimantis gagliardoi Bustamante and Mendelson, 2008
Pristimantis gagliardoi Bustamante and Mendelson, 2008, Zootaxa, 1820: 50. Holotype: QCAZ 27103, by original designation. Type locality: "La Libertad, Reserva Mazar, (S 02° 32′ 47″S, 078° 41′ 54.1″ W, 2895 m). Provincia Cañar, Ecuador".
Pristimantis (Huicundomantis) gagliardoi — Páez and Ron, 2019, ZooKeys, 868: 27.
Common Names
Gagliardi's Rainfrog (Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 3: xxxiv).
Cutín de Gagliardo (Spanish: Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 3: xxxiv).
Distribution
Montane cloud forests on the Amazonian slopes of the Cordillera Oriental in Cañar and Morona Santiago provinces, Ecuador, 2700 to 3264 m elevation.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Ecuador
Endemic: Ecuador
Comment
In the Pristimantis unistrigatus group according to the original publication. Not assignable to a species group according to Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 127. Brito-M., Batallas-Revelo, and Yánez-Muñoz, 2017, Neotropical Biodiversity, 3: 125–156. provided a record from Morona Santiago, Ecuador and brief natural history notes. In the Pristimantis (Huicundomantis) cryptomelas species group of Páez and Ron, 2019, ZooKeys, 868: 95. Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 3: 167–168, 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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