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

Common 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. Included in the Pristimantis unistrigatus group as delimited by Mônico, Koch, Ferrão, Fernandes, Marques, Chaparro, Rodrigues, Lima, and Fouquet, 2024, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 108203: 1–19, on molecular grounds (mtDNA and nuDNA genes).

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