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Pristimantis chimu Lehr, 2007
Pristimantis chimu Lehr, 2007, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 159: 146. Holotype: MCZ 136071, by original designation. Type locality: "2-3 km NW (straight-line) El Pargo (Llama-Humabos Road) 3,000-3,100 m, Departamento de Cajamarca, Peru".
Pristimantis (Pristimantis) chimu — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 125.
Common Names
None noted.
Distribution
Known only from the type locality (2–3 km northwest of El Pargo, Cajamarca, Peru, 3000–3100 m elevation) in the Cordillera Occidental.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Peru
Endemic: Peru
Comment
In the Pristimantis orestes group according to the original publication. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) orestes species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 125. Not assignable to a species group according to Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 127. See Duellman and Lehr, 2009, Terrest.-breeding Frogs in Peru: 159-160, for brief account.
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