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* = "wildcard". Allows a partial letter string to be entered and implies either no or various extension on this letter string	Hyl*	Will find all uses of "Hyl . . ." anywhere in a record: e.g., Hylarana, Hyla, Hylidae, Hylinae, Hylaedactyla.
* = "wildcard". Allows a partial letter string to be entered and implies either no or various extension on this letter string	*Hyla	Will find all uses of ". . . hyla" anywhere in a record: e.g., Hyla, Hylidae, Plectrohyla, Ptychadena hylaea, Adenomera hylaedactyla
Single word	Hyla	Will find all records that contain stand-alone uses of Hyla: e.g., Hyla, Hyla arenicolor
Strings of words without quotation marks	Lithobates pipiens	Interprets this as "Lithobates OR pipiens" so will find the union of all records that contain either "Lithobates" or "pipiens": e.g., Lithobates omiltemanus, Hylorana pipiens
Strings of word with quotation marks	"Lithobates pipiens"	Interprets this as "Lithobates AND pipiens" so will return all records that have the character string "Lithobates pipiens" anywhere within a record: e.g., all members of the Lithobates pipiens complex.
AND statement. Means that the results of the search must include both words held together by an AND	Lithobates AND pipiens	Same as "Lithobates pipiens"
OR statement. Means that the results of the search will all records that have either of the terms held together by an OR	Lithobates OR "Costa Rica"	Recovers all records that contain the word "Lithobates" or "Costa Rica": 402 records inasmuch as this will include all records for the entire amphibian fauna of Costa Rica
Combining Boolean operators within the Basic Search box (AND, OR, NOT, quotation marks)	Lithobates AND "Costa Rica" NOT forreri	Recovers only records that contain the word Lithobates AND "Costa Rica", but excludes any record that contains the word "forreri" in any part of the record: 9 records
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Pristimantis latidiscus (Boulenger, 1898)

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

Hylodes latidiscus Boulenger, 1898, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1898: 121. Syntypes: BMNH 1947.2.15.66–67 (formerly 1898.4.28.108–109), according to museum records. BMNH 1947.2.15.66 designated lectotype by Ron, Paredes, Paucar, López, Apunte, and Ortega, 2026, ZooKeys, 1286: 128. Type locality: "Cachabé [=Cachabí], a small village [about 10 miles southeast of Concepción] on the river of that name, on the N. W. Coast, in the Prov. Esmeraldas", Ecuador. Lynch and Myers, 1983, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 175: 515, discussed this locality and noted that it is not the same as San Javier de Cachabí.

Hylodes subsigillatus Boulenger, 1902, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, 9: 52. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.17.1 (formerly 1901.8.3.14), according to J.D. Lynch in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 323. Type locality: "Salidero, 350 feet", Esmeraldas Province, Ecuador. Synonymy by Ron, Paredes, Paucar, López, Apunte, and Ortega, 2026, ZooKeys, 1286: 128.

Eleutherodactylus latidiscus — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582–583, by implication; Dunn, 1933, Occas. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 8D: 68; Parker, 1934, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 10, 14: 267.

Eleutherodactylus subsigillatus — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582–583, by implication; Peters, 1955, Rev. Ecuat. Entomol. Parsitol., 2: 339.

Eleutherodactylus latidiscus latidiscus — Cochran and Goin, 1970, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 288: 416.

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) latidiscus — Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 227.

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

Pristimantis (Hypodictyon) latidiscus — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 114.

Common Names

Broad-disked Rainfrog (Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 3: xxxv).

Cutín de Disco Ancho (Spanish: Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 3: xxxv).

Disc Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 76).

Engraved Rainfrog (Pristimants subsigillatus [no longer recognized]: Arteaga-Navarro, Bustamante, and Guayasamin, 2013, Amph. Rept. Mindo: 86).

Ornate-flanked Rainfrog (Pristimants subsigillatus [no longer recognized]: Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 3: xxxvii).

Cutín de Flancos Adornados (Pristimants subsigillatus [no longer recognized]: Spanish: Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 3: xxxvii).

Salidero Robber Frog (Pristimants subsigillatus [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 79).

Distribution

Lowland forests at 169 to 1313 m elevation in northwestern Ecuador (Carchi, Esmeraldas, Imbabura, Pichincha, and Manabí provinces) and western Colombia north to western Antioquia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia, Ecuador

Comment

See Lynch, Ruiz-Carranza, and Ardila-Robayo, 1994, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 170: 1–42, for discussion and redefinition of this and similar species, as well as assignment to the Eleutherodactylus cruentus group. See account by Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 108–110, who placed this in the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group. Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 227, placed this species in his Eleutherodactylus martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus cruentus group. In the Pristimantis (Hypodictyon) ridens species series of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 114, and in the Pristimantis ridens species group of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 126. Crawford, Cruz, Griffith, Ross, Ibáñez D., Lips, Driskell, Bermingham, and Crump, 2013, Mol. Ecol. Resources, 13: 1005–1018, detected potential cryptic lineages within this taxon. Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 3: 210–211, provided an account with photographs which summarized morphological identification, systematics, natural history, distribution (including a dot map for Ecuador), and conservation. Ron, Paredes, Paucar, López, Apunte, and Ortega, 2026, ZooKeys, 1286: 121–152, suggested that much of the literature of nominal Pristimantis subsigillatus actually applies to a different species, which they named Pristimantis milpe.

Comment under Pristimantis subsigillatus prior to its synonymy with Pristimantis latidiscus and moving most records of nominal Pristimantis subsigillatus to Pristimantis milpe: In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 233. See account provided by Lynch, 1980, Herpetologica, 36: 182–184. See account by Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 1–236. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) unistrigatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 128. Not assignable to a species group according to Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 128. Arteaga-Navarro, Bustamante, and Guayasamin, 2013, Amph. Rept. Mindo: 86–88, provided an account and dot map for Ecuador. Stănescu, Márquez, Székely, and Cogǎlniceanu, 2017, Acta Herpetol., Firenze, 12: 95–101, reported on advertisement call. Armijos-Ojeda, Székely, Székely, Cogǎlniceanu, Cisneros-Heredia, Ordóñez-Delgado, Escudero, and Espinosa, 2021, ZooKeys, 1063: 40, provided a dot map for southwestern Ecuador. Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 3: 383–385, 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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