Pristimantis grandoculis (Van Lidth de Jeude, 1904)

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

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. 

English 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. 

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