Pristimantis anolirex (Lynch, 1983)

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

Eleutherodactylus anolirex Lynch, 1983, in Rhodin and Miyata (eds.), Adv. Herpetol. Evol. Biol.: 52. Holotype: KU 168626, by original designation. Type locality: "18.5 km (by road) S Chitagá, Departamento de Norte de Santander, Colombia, 2850 m".

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) anolirexLynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154; Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 220.

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

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

English Names

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

Distribution

Northern Cordillera Oriental in the Departments of Norte de Santander and Santander, Colombia, 1900–3550 m elevation; also in adjacent Táchira, Venezuela, in the Macizo de Tamá.

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 220. Barrio-Amorós, 1999 "1998", Acta Biol. Venezuelica, 18: 51, commented on the Venezuelan distribution. 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 statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status (as Eleutherodactylus anolirex) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 619. See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 111–112, for comments on range and literature with special reference to Venezuela.

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