Strabomantis anatipes (Lynch and Myers, 1983)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Brachycephaloidea > Family: Craugastoridae > Subfamily: Strabomantinae > Genus: Strabomantis > Species: Strabomantis anatipes

Eleutherodactylus anatipes Lynch and Myers, 1983, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 175: 516. Holotype: KU 177626, by original designation. Type locality: "Maldonado, Prov. Carchi, Ecuador, 1410 m."

Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) anatipes — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 317, by implication.

Craugastor anatipes — Crawford and Smith, 2005, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 35: 551, by implication; Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 360.

Limnophys anatipes — Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.

Strabomantis anatipes — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 132.

Common Names

Webbed Broad-headed Rainfrog (Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 3: xxxvii).

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

Anatipes Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 72).

Distribution

Elevations of 100 to 1410 m on the Pacific slope of the Cordillera Occidental of the Departments of Nariño and Valle del Cauca, Colombia, south to northwestern Ecuador (Carchi and Imbabura provinces). 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia, Ecuador

Comment

According to the original publication Eleutherodactylus anatipes is probably most closely related to Eleutherodactylus anomalus and Eleutherodactylus zygodactylus. Lynch and Myers pointed out, however, that these three species may be more closely related to certain broad-headed species (Eleutherodactylus bufoniformis and Eleutherodactylus necerus) than to other member species of the Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri group. Transferred to the Eleutherodactylus rugulosus group by Savage, 1987, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S., 33: 1-57, but subsequently placed in the Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) anomalus group by Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 219. See comment under Eleutherodactylus cheiroplethus. See review by Lynch and Ardila-Robayo, 1993, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 558: 1-2. See account by Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 68-69. Removed from a monophyletic Craugastor and from the Eleutherodactylus rugulosus group by Lynch, 2000, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 24: 130. Considered to be the sister taxon of Eleutherodactylus zygodactylus by Lynch, 2000 "1999", Caldasia, 21: 187. In the Strabomantis bufoniformis species series, of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 132, and Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 123. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Craugastor anatipes) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 298. Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 3: 442–443, 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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