Pristimantis anemerus (Duellman and Pramuk, 1999)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Brachycephaloidea > Family: Strabomantidae > Subfamily: Pristimantinae > Genus: Pristimantis > Species: Pristimantis anemerus

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) anemerus Duellman and Pramuk, 1999, Sci. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Univ. Kansas, 13: 42. Holotype: KU 219798, by original designation. Type locality: "El Tambo (05° 21′ S, 79° 33′ W, 2770 m), 31 km (by road) ENE of Canchaque, Provincia Huancabamba, Departamento Piura, Peru".

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

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

Common Names

Wild's Rainfrog (Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 3 (Craugastoridae): xxxiii).

Cutín de Wild (Spanish: Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 3 (Craugastoridae): xxxiii).

Distribution

Known only from the region of the type locality (elevation 2770 m) in the Province of Huancabamba, Department of Piura, Peru, and into adjacent Ecuador in the cloud forests of Loja, Ecuador at 2154 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 species group according to Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 127. See Duellman and Lehr, 2009, Terrest.-breeding Frogs in Peru: 140-141, 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 (Craugastoridae): 66–67, 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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