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Pristimantis floridus (Lynch and Duellman, 1997)
Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) floridus Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 94. Holotype: USNM 239672, by original designation. Type locality: "'region of Sigchos, (Provincia) Cotopaxi,' Ecuador".
Pristimantis floridus — Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.
Pristimantis (Pristimantis) floridus — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 125.
Pristimantis (Trachyphrynus) floridus — Franco-Mena, Guayasamin, Andrade-Brito, Yánez-Muñoz, and Rojas-Runjaic, 2023, PeerJ, 11 (e14715): 17.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Western flank of the Andes in the Ecuadorian provinces of Cotopaxi, Imbabura, and Pichincha, in cloud forest at elevations of 700–2000 m.
Geographics occurrence
Natural resident: Ecuador
Endemic to the political unit: Ecuador
Comment
Subgenus Eleutherodactylus, Eleutherodactylus myersi group, according to the original publication. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) myersi series, Eleutherodactylus myersi group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 224. 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 map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Eleutherodactylus floridus) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 338. Franco-Mena, Guayasamin, Andrade-Brito, Yánez-Muñoz, and Rojas-Runjaic, 2023, PeerJ, 11 (e14715): 3, did not include this species in their analysis of the Pristimantis myersi group due to its not having been collected in recent years.
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