Pristimantis chrysops (Lynch and Ruiz-Carranza, 1996)

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

Eleutherodactylus chrysops Lynch and Ruiz-Carranza, 1996, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 20: 358. Holotype: ICN 36900, by original designation. Type locality: "quebrada La Esperanza, ca 9 km S Queremal, Municipio de Dagua, Departamento Valle del Cauca, Colombia, 1960-2090 m".

Pristimantis chrysopsHeinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.

Pristimantis (Pristimantis) chrysopsHedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 121.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Cloud forest on the western flank of the Cordillera Occidental in the departments of Valle del Cauca and Chocó, Colombia, 1960–2090 m elevation.

Comment

Most closely related to Eleutherodactylus cacao and Eleutherodactylus xylochobates according to the original publication. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) devillei species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 121. In the reformulated Pristimantis devillei species group of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 126. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Eleutherodactylus chrysops) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 327.

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