Pristimantis cantitans (Myers and Donnelly, 1996)

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

Eleutherodactylus cantitans Myers and Donnelly, 1996, Am. Mus. Novit., 3172: 11. Holotype: EBRG 3005, by original designation. Type locality: "summit of Cerro Yaví, 2150 m, Amazonas, Venezuela".

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) cantitansLynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 221.

Pristimantis cantitansHeinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2; Myers and Donnelly, 2008, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 308: 147.

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

Common Names

None noted.

Distribution

Cerros Yaví and Yutajé, two tepuis in northern Amazonas, Amazonas, Venezuela.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Venezuela

Endemic: Venezuela

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to the original publication. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 221. See also Myers and Donnelly, 2001, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 261: 36–39, for account. 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): 113–114, for comments on range and literature. 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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