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Pristimantis chloronotus (Lynch, 1969)
Eleutherodactylus chloronotus Lynch, 1969, J. Herpetol., 3: 140. Holotype: KU 117519, by original designation. Type locality: "3 km E Papallacta, Provincia Napo, Ecuador, 2900 m."
Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) chloronotus — Lynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154; Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 222.
Pristimantis chloronotus — Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.
Pristimantis (Pristimantis) chloronotus — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 128.
English Names
Green Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 73).
Distribution
Subparamo and upper humid montane forest (2285–3350 m) along the eastern front of the Andes from southern Colombia (Nariño and Putumayo) southward to the Pastaza depression (Ecuador).
Comment
See account by Lynch and Duellman, 1980, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 69: 11-18. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 222. Mueses-Cisneros, 2005, Caldasia, 27: 235, provided a record for Putumayo, Colombia. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) unistrigatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 128. Not assignable to a species group according to Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 127.
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