Niceforonia nigrovittata (Andersson, 1945)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Brachycephaloidea > Family: Strabomantidae > Subfamily: Hypodactylinae > Genus: Niceforonia > Species: Niceforonia nigrovittata

Eleutherodactylus nigrovittatus Andersson, 1945, Ark. Zool., 37A(2): 42. Holotype: NHRM by original indication. Type locality: "Ambitagua [=Abitagua], 1200 m above the sea level", Provincia Tungurahua, eastern Ecuador.

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) nigrovittatusLynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154. Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 229.

"Eleutherodactylus" nigrovittatusHeinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: 4.

Isodactylus nigrovittatusHedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 108.

Hypodactylus nigrovittatusHedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1795: 67-68.

Niceforonia nigrovittata — Acosta-Galvis, Streicher, Manuelli, Cuddy, and de Sá, 2018, Zootaxa, 4514: 494. 

Common Names

Black-banded Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 77).

Distribution

Upper Amazonian Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia, 200 to 1935 m elevation in cloud forest.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus nigrovittatus group of Lynch, 1989, Milwaukee Public Mus. Contrib. Biol. Geol., 79: 1-25. Duellman, 1978, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 65: 96–91, provided a brief account (as Eleutherodactylus nigrovittatus).  Phyzelaphryne miriamae Heyer, 1977, was considered a synonym by Lynch, 1980, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Sect. A, Zool., 2: 299-301. Rodríguez and Duellman, 1994, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 22: 59–60, provided a brief account for the Iquitos region of northeastern Peru as Eleutherodactylus nigrovittatus. See comment under Phyzelaphryne miriamae. See brief account by Lynch and Duellman, 1980, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 69: 44-45. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) conspicillatus series, Eleutherodactylus nigrovittatus group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 229. Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104: 10092-10097, removed this species from nominal Eleutherodactylus but did not provide a new generic name; see comment under Hypodactylus. See Duellman and Lehr, 2009, Terrest.-breeding Frogs in Peru: 85-86, for brief account. Metcalf, Marsh, Torres Pacaya, Graham, and Gunnels, 2020, Herpetol. Notes, 13: 753–767, reported the species from the Santa Cruz Forest Reserve, Loreto, northeastern Peru.

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