Pristimantis ganonotus (Duellman and Lynch, 1988)

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

Eleutherodactylus ganonotus Duellman and Lynch, 1988, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 140: 133. Holotype: ANSP 29279, by original designation. Type locality: "'Yapitya,' 1700 m, on the trail between Logroño and Yaupi, west slope of the Cordillera de Cutucú, Provincia Morona-Santiago, Ecuador".

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) ganonotusLynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 224.

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

Pristimantis (Pristimantis) ganonotusHedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 118.

Common Names

Yapitya Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 75).

Distribution

Known only from the west slope of the Cordillera de Cutucú, from the Provincia Morona-Santiago to Napo, Ecuador, 1400 to 2000 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ecuador

Endemic: Ecuador

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) conspicillatus series, unassigned to species group by Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 224. In the subgenus Pristimantis, but unnassigned to species group by Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 118, and by Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 127. Reyes-Puig, Reyes-Puig, and Yánez-Muñoz, 2013, Avanc. Cienc. Ingen., Quito, Secc. B,, 5(2): B5-B13, discussed the range in Ecuador. Brito-M., Batallas-Revelo, and Yánez-Muñoz, 2017, Neotropical Biodiversity, 3: 125–156. provided a record from Morona Santiago, Ecuador and brief natural history notes. Batallas-Revelo and Brito-M., 2016, Cuad. Herpetol., 30: 31–34, described vocalizations. 

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