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Pristimantis degener (Lynch and Duellman, 1997)
Eleutherodactylus degener Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 86. Holotype: QCAZ 1297, by original designation. Type locality: "Alto Tambo, 830 m (00° 51′ 42″ N, 78° 30′ 54″ W), Provincia Esmeraldas, Ecuador".
Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) degener — Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 223.
Pristimantis degener — Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.
Pristimantis (Pristimantis) degener — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 128.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Three localities at 830 and 1200 m in cloud forest on the lower slopes of the Andes in northwestern Ecuador (Esmeraldas Province) and adjacent Colombia (Departamento Nariño).
Comment
Subgenus Eleutherodactylus, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to the original publication. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 223. 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. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Eleutherodactylus degener) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 331. See Carrión-Olmedo and Ron, 2021, Evol. Syst., 5: 151–175, for phylogenetic placement in the Pristimantis lacrimosus group.
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