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Pristimantis grandoculis (Van Lidth de Jeude, 1904)
Hylodes grandoculis Van Lidth de Jeude, 1904, Notes Leyden Mus., 25: 93. Holotype: RMNH 4467, according to J.D. Lynch in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 291. Type locality: "the basin and the sources of the Coppename", interior of Suriname; discussed by Fouquet, Peloso, Jairam, Lima, Mônico, Ernst, and Kok, 2022, Organisms Divers. Evol., 22: 1070, and suggested that the type locality was from "the farthest point reached by the expedition and that 3.9500°N 56.7543°W are plausible coordinates for the type locality."
Eleutherodactylus grandoculis — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582–583, by implication; Gorham, 1966, Das Tierreich, 85: 75; Gorham, 1974, Checklist World Amph.: 53.
Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) grandoculis — Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 225.
Pristimantis grandoculis — Fouquet, Peloso, Jairam, Lima, Mônico, Ernst, and Kok, 2022, Organisms Divers. Evol., 22: 1070.
Common Names
Big-eyed Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 75).
Distribution
Suriname, Guyana, and northern Pará and Amapá (Brazil), and possibly distinct populations in French Guiana (see comment)
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname
Comment
Removed from the synonymy of Pristimantis marmoratus by Fouquet, Peloso, Jairam, Lima, Mônico, Ernst, and Kok, 2022, Organisms Divers. Evol., 22: 1065–1098 (who reported on osteology, external morphology, and molecular markers), where it had been placed by M. S. Hoogmoed in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 291. These authors also noted that the French Guiana population may be a distinct species, but refrained from naming it. Lescure, Dewynter, Frétey, Ineich, Ohler, Vidal, and De Massary, 2022, Bull. Soc. Herpetol. France, 181(5): 1–17, discussed the taxonomic disarray of this apparent species complex. Included in the Pristimantis marmoratus clade of the Pristimantis unistrigatus group as delimited by Mônico, Koch, Ferrão, Fernandes, Marques, Chaparro, Rodrigues, Lima, and Fouquet, 2024, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 108203: 1–19, on molecular grounds (mtDNA and nuDNA genes).
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