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Pristimantis eugeniae (Lynch and Duellman, 1997)
Eleutherodactylus eugeniae Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 93. Holotype: KU 165899, by original designation. Type locality: "Quebrada Zapadores, 5 km ESE Chiriboga, 2010 m (00° 15′ S, 78° 43′ W), Provincia Pichincha, Ecuador".
Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) eugeniae — Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 223.
Pristimantis eugeniae — Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.
Pristimantis (Pristimantis) eugeniae — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 128.
Common Names
Eugenia's Rainfrog (Arteaga-Navarro, Bustamante, and Guayasamin, 2013, Amph. Rept. Mindo: 68).
Distribution
Area of cloud forest at elevations of 1783 to 2088 m in the upper valley of the Río Pilatón in the provinces of Pichincha and Cotopaxi, Ecuador.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Ecuador
Endemic: Ecuador
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: 224. Guayasamin, Bonaccorso, Menéndez-Guerrero, and Bustamante, 2004, Herpetol. Rev., 35: 17–23, provided vocalization, a distribution map and additional distributional data beyond the original publication. 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 eugeniae) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 337. Arteaga-Navarro, Bustamante, and Guayasamin, 2013, Amph. Rept. Mindo: 68–69, provided an account and dot map for Ecuador. See Carrión-Olmedo and Ron, 2021, Evol. Syst., 5: 151–175, for phylogenetic placement.
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- For additional information specific to Ecuador see FaunaWebEcuador: Anfibios del Ecuador
- For access to available specimen data for this species, from over 350 scientific collections, go to Vertnet.