Pristimantis daquilemai Brito-Zapata, Reyes-Puig, Cisneros-Heredia, Zumel, and Ron, 2021

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

Pristimantis daquilemai Brito-Zapata, Reyes-Puig, Cisneros-Heredia, Zumel, and Ron, 2021, Zootaxa, 5072: 355. Holotype: ZSFQ 1206, by original designation. Type locality: "near the community of Río Blanco (3.907196°S, 78.485674°W, 2054 m), Paquisha parish, Paquisha county, province of Zamora Chinchipe, Republic of Ecuador". Zoobank publication registration: 08CC746F-E14B-488B-BDE5-8B20B9642A5B

English Names

Daquilema’s Rain Frog (original publication). 

Distribution

Known from three localities at elevations between 1554 and 2067 m, on the Cordillera del Condor, Provincia de Zamora-Chinchipe, southern Ecuador; likely to be found in immediately adjacent Peru.  

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ecuador

Likely/Controversially Present: Peru

Endemic: Ecuador

Comment

In the nominal Pristimantis unistrigatus group, according to the original publication, where comparative external morphology, molecular markers, and conservation status were detailed. 

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