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Pristimantis nankints Ron, Carrión, Caminer, Sagredo, Navarrete, Ortega, Varela-Jaramillo, Maldonado-Castro, and Terán, 2020
Pristimantis nankints Ron, Carrión-Olmedo, Caminer, Sagredo, Navarrete Méndez, Ortega, Varela-Jaramillo, Maldonado-Castro, and Terán, 2020, ZooKeys, 993: 138. Holotype: QCAZ 71457, by original designation. Type locality: "Ecuador, Provincia Morona Santiago, Cantón Santiago de Méndez. Low part of the Cutucú mountain range in the vicinity of the house of Mr. Carlos Hurtado (2.78325°S; 78.15878°W), 1413 m above sea level". http://zoobank.org/F3D2457F-6AB8-49F7-9608-1A24A4054782
Common Names
Nankints Rain Frog (original publication).
Nankints Rainfrog (Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 3: xxxv).
Cutín de Nankints (Spanish: Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 3: xxxv).
Distribution
Known only from the vicinity of the type locality (Cantón Santiago de Méndez) on the eastern Andean slopes of the Cordillera del Cutucu, 1352 to 1413 m elevation, Provincia Morona Santiago, Ecuador.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Ecuador
Endemic: Ecuador
Comment
In the Pristimantis lacrimosus species group according to the original publication. Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 3: 266–267, 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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