Pristimantis anotis (Walker and Test, 1955)

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

Eleutherodactylus anotis Walker and Test, 1955, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 561: 7. Holotype: UMMZ 109876, by original designation. Type locality: "from a small stream at Rancho Grande, 1090 m., Estado Aragua, Venezuela".

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) anotisLynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 220.

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

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

Common Names

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

Distribution

Known only from the vicinity of the type locality, Rancho Grande, 1090 m elevation, in the State of Aragua, Venezuela.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Venezuela

Endemic: Venezuela

Comment

See account by Rivero, 1961, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 126: 81. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 220. 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 Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 112–113, for comments on range, possible extinction, and literature with special reference to Venezuela. 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.

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