Pristimantis petersioides Carrión-Olmedo and Ron, 2021

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

Pristimantis petersioides Carrión-Olmedo and Ron, 2021, Evol. Syst., 5: 159. Holotype: QCAZ58939, by original designation. Type locality: "Ecuador, Morona Santiago Province, Sangay National Park, Sardinayacu (2.0983°S, 78.1555°W), 1406 m."

Common Names

Sardinayacu’s Rain Frog (original publication). 

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

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

Distribution

Known from the Amazonian slopes of the Cordillera Oriental, Ecuador (Morona Santiago, Napo, Tungurahua, and Pastaza provinces), between 1221 and 2422 m elevation. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ecuador

Endemic: Ecuador

Comment

In the Pristimantis lacrimosus group according to the original publication, which addressed advertisement call, morphology, and molecular phylogenetics, and the previous confusion with Pristimantis petersiColoma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 3: 308–310, provided an account with photographs which summarized morphological identification, (the tentative nature of its) systematics, natural history, distribution (including a dot map for Ecuador), conservation, and also (pp. 481–482) described the advertisement calls from two populations.

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