Pristimantis onorei Rödder and Schmitz, 2009

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

Pristimantis onorei Rödder and Schmitz, 2009, Rev. Suisse Zool., 116: 276. Holotype: MHNG 2392.25, by original designation. Type locality: "Tandapi, Pichincha, Ecuador, approximately 78.91° W, 0.54° S, 2,115 m a.s.l.".

Pristimantis (Trachyphrynus) onorei — Franco-Mena, Guayasamin, Andrade-Brito, Yánez-Muñoz, and Rojas-Runjaic, 2023, PeerJ, 11 (e14715): 17.

Common Names

Onore's Robber Frog (original publication).

Onore's Rainfrog (Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 3: xxxvi).

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

Distribution

Known only from Santo Domingo de Las Colorados and Tandapi, Pichincha Province, and from San Francisco de Las Pampas, Cotopaxi Province, Ecuador, 1526 to 1629 m elevation, all in humid lowland tropical forest.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ecuador

Endemic: Ecuador

Comment

In the Pristimantis myersi group, most similar to Pristimantis leoni and Pristimantis ocreatus according to the original publication. Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 3: 285–286, 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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