Pristimantis dissimulatus (Lynch and Duellman, 1997)

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

Eleutherodactylus dissimulatus Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 88. Holotype: KU 179088, by original designation. Type locality: "Quebrada Zapadores, 5 km ESE Chiriboga, 2010 m (00° 15′ S, 78° 43′ W), Provincia Pichincha, Ecuador".

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) dissimulatusLynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 223.

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

Pristimantis (Pristimantis) dissimulatusHedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 128.

Common Names

Bright-colored Cutin (Freile, Coloma, Terán-Valdez, Acosta-López, Tapia, and Pazmiño-Otamendi, 2020, Anfibios de Junín: 36).

Distribution

Cloud forest on the lower slopes of the Andes in northwestern Ecuador (Pichincha, Imbabura, and Junín provinces) at 1900 to 2550 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ecuador

Endemic: Ecuador

Comment

Subgenus Eleutherodactylus, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to the original publication, most similar to Eleutherodactylus calcarulatus. 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 photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Eleutherodactylus dissimulatus) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 333. See Freile, Coloma, Terán-Valdez, Acosta-López, Tapia, and Pazmiño-Otamendi, 2020, Anfibios de Junín: 36–37, for brief account for Junín, Ecuador (identification, habitat, range and photograph).

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