Pristimantis asimus Köhler, Glaw, Aguilar-Puntriano, Castroviejo-Fisher, Chaparro, De la Riva, Gagliardi-Urrutia, Gutiérrez, Vences, and Padial, 2024

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

Pristimantis asimus Köhler, Glaw, Aguilar-Puntriano, Castroviejo-Fisher, Chaparro, De la Riva, Gagliardi-Urrutia, Gutiérrez, Vences, and Padial, 2024, Zoosyst. Evol., 100: 570. Holotype: MUSM 41241, by original designation. Type locality: "the Área de Conservación Privada Panguana (9.6166°S, 74.9333°W, 260 m above sea level), lower Río Yuyapichis, Provincia Puerto Inca, Departamento Huánuco, Peru". ZooBank Publication Registration: 3D0B1824-9405-4F44-ADB9-6890B0C5C0D3

Common Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Lowland rainforests from the southern Departamento Huánuco (Panguana, type locality) and eastern Departamento Ucayali (Breu, Río Yurua) southward across most of the lowlands of southeastern Peru, reaching the border of Machiguenga Communal Reserve (Departamento Cusco) and Manu National Park (Departamento Madre de Dios) in the south as well as northernmost Bolivia (Bioceanica, Departamento Pando) to the east. Likely to be found in adjacent Acre, Brazil. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Bolivia, Peru

Likely/Controversially Present: Brazil

Comment

In the Pristimantis danae group, the sister taxon of Pristimantis reichlei, according to the original publication, where comparative morphology, advertisement call, and molecular markers were detailed, and a dot map provided.  

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