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.

Common 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.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia

Endemic: Colombia

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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