Pristimantis serendipitus (Duellman and Pramuk, 1999)

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

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) serendipitus Duellman and Pramuk, 1999, Sci. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Univ. Kansas, 13: 66. Holotype: KU 181279, by original designation. Type locality: "from 8 km [by road] north–northeast of Balzapata, 1850 m, Provincia Bongara, Departamento Amazonas, Peru." 

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

Pristimantis (Pristimantis) serendipitusHedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 128.

Common Names

Fortuitous Rainfrog (Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 3: xxxvii).

Cutín Afortunado (Spanish: Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 3: xxxvii).

Distribution

Andes of northern Peru on the upper western slopes of the northern Cordillera Central, and from western slopes of the Cordillera Colán, Amazonas Department and from Zamora Chinchipe Province, Ecuador, 899 to 2354 m elevation. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ecuador, Peru

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to the original publication. 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: 127. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Eleutherodactylus serendipitus) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 380. See Duellman and Lehr, 2009, Terrest.-breeding Frogs in Peru: 237-238, for brief account. Unassigned to species group by Mônico, Koch, Ferrão, Fernandes, Marques, Chaparro, Rodrigues, Lima, and Fouquet, 2024, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 108203: 1–19, due to a lack of molecular data. Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 3: 373–375, 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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