Pristimantis metabates (Duellman and Pramuk, 1999)

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

Eleutherodactylus metabates Duellman and Pramuk, 1999, Sci. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Univ. Kansas, 13: 31. Holotype: KU 186904, by original designation; corrected to KU 196904 by Duellman and Lehr, 2009, Terrest.-breeding Frogs in Peru: 200. Type locality: "20 km (by trail) SW of Chiriaco (05° 13′ S, 78° 17′ W, 525 m), Provincia Bagua, Departamento Amazonas, Peru".

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

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

Common Names

Leaping Rainfrog (Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 3: xxxv).

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

Distribution

Known only from the region of the type locality in the Province of Bagua, Department of Amazonas, northern Peru, and also reported from the "Centro de Estudios y Desarrollo para Amazonia", a reserve in northeastern Zamora-Chinchipe, southern Ecuador, both in the eastern foothills of the Andes, 525 to 860 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ecuador, Peru

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus conspicillatus group according to the original publication. In the Pristimantis conspicillatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 120, and Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 125. Cisneros-Heredia, Armijos-Ojeda, and Valarezo, 2009, Herpetol. Notes, 2: 185-188, provided the record from Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador, and discussed the geographic and ecological range. See Duellman and Lehr, 2009, Terrest.-breeding Frogs in Peru: 199-200, for brief account. Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 3: 248–249, 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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