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Pristimantis festae (Peracca, 1904)
Paludicola Festae Peracca, 1904, Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. Comp. Univ. Torino, 19 (465): 32. Syntypes: BMNH 1926.12.4.1 (now 1947.2.15.47, by museum records), MZUT 428 (8 specimens), 819; MZUT 819 designated lectotype by Lynch, 1975, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 38: 31. Type locality: "Papallacta", Ecuador. Potential secondary homonym of Hylodes festae Peracca, 1904 (= Eleutherodactylus galdi).
Syrrhopus festae — Parker, 1927, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 9, 20: 451.
Niceforonia festae — Lynch, 1968, Herpetologica, 24: 291.
Eleutherodactylus trepidotus Lynch, 1968, Herpetologica, 24: 295. Holotype: USNM 164399, by original designation. Type locality: "1 km west of Papallacta, Napo Province, Ecuador, 3155 m." Synonymy by Lynch, 1975, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 35: 31 (but by mistake considering Paludicola festae unavailable).
Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) trepidotus — Lynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154; Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 233.
Pristimantis festae — Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.
Pristimantis (Pristimantis) festae — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 125.
Pristimantis (Trachyphrynus) festae — Franco-Mena, Guayasamin, Andrade-Brito, Yánez-Muñoz, and Rojas-Runjaic, 2023, PeerJ, 11 (e14715): 17.
English Names
Shy Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 80).
Distribution
Páramo and subpáramo habitats from the eastern slope of the Ecuadorian Andes, from near the border with Colombia, in the province of Sucumbios, south to the Llanganatis Mountains (Napo and Tunguragua Provinces) at altitudes of 2360–3650 m elevation.
Comment
In the Eleutherodactylus myersi assembly of the Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group; in the more inclusive (and monophyletic) Eleutherodactylus pyrrhomerus assembly, and the sister-species of Eleutherodactylus ocreatus, according to Lynch, 1984, Herpetologica, 40: 237 (as Eleutherodactylus trepidotus). See brief account (as Eleutherodactylus trepidotus) by Lynch and Duellman, 1980, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 69: 58–59. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) myersi series, Eleutherodactylus myersi group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 233 (as Eleutherodactylus trepidotus). Almendáriz C. and Orcés, 2004, Rev. Politécnica, Quito, 25: 129, provided distributional data for Ecuador (as Eleutherodactylus trepidotus). In the Pristimantis myersi species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 125, and of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 126. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Eleutherodactylus trepidotus) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 386. Guayasamin and Funk, 2009, Zootaxa, 2220: 41–66, provided the elevational range. Holzheuser and Merino-Viteri, 2019, Herpetol. Rev., 50: 479–483, reported on call structure and activity.
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