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Pristimantis chiastonotus (Lynch and Hoogmoed, 1977)
Eleutherodactylus chiastonotus Lynch and Hoogmoed, 1977, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 90: 425. Holotype: RMNH 17614, by original designation. Type locality: "Brownsberg, Brokopondo District, Surinam, 500 m".
Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) chiastonotus — Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 222.
Pristimantis chiastonotus — Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.
Pristimantis (Pristimantis) chiastonotus — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 120.
English Names
Brownberg Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 73).
Distribution
Low elevation forests in northeastern Brazil (Amapá), Guyana, French Guiana, and Suriname (below 700 m).
Comment
In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) conspicillatus series, Eleutherodactylus conspicillatus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 222. See Lescure, 1981, Rev. Fr. Aquar. Herpetol., 8: 25-32. Lescure and Marty, 2000, Collect. Patrimoines Nat., Paris, 45: 204-205, provided a photo and brief account for French Guiana. In the Pristimantis conspicillatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 120, and Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 125. See account for Suriname population by Ouboter and Jairam, 2012, Amph. Suriname: 300-303. See Cole, Townsend, Reynolds, MacCulloch, and Lathrop, 2013, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 125: 386-387, for brief account and records for Guyana. Fouquet, Vidal, and Dewynter, 2019, Zoosystema, 41: 366, suggested that this nominal species is a complex. Taucce, Costa-Campos, Carvalho, and Michalski, 2022, Eur. J. Taxon., 836: 96–130, reported on distribution, literature, and conservation status for Amapá, Brazil. In the Pristimantis conspicillatus group, Pristimantis fenestratus clade of Fouquet, Réjaud, Rodrigues, Ron, Chaparro, Osorno-Muñoz, Werneck, Hrbek, Lima, Camacho-Badani, Jaramillo-Martinez, and Chave, 2022, Syst. Biodiversity, 20(1: 2130464): 1–16, who reported on phylogenetics and biogeography.
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