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Pristimantis illotus (Lynch and Duellman, 1997)
Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) illotus Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 104. Holotype: KU 165881, by original designation. Type locality: "3.5 km NE (by road) Mindo, 1540 m (00° 02′ 53″ S, 78° 46′ 20″ W), Provincia Pichincha, Ecuador".
Pristimantis illotus — Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.
Pristimantis (Pristimantis) illotus — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 120.
English Names
Dirty Rainfrog (Arteaga-Navarro, Bustamante, and Guayasamin, 2013, Amph. Rept. Mindo: 71).
Distribution
Cloud forest (1380 to 2560 m elevation) on the Pacific slopes of the Andes from the Department of Valle de Cauca in Colombia southward to Provincia Pichincha, Ecuador.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Colombia, Ecuador
Comment
In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) conspicillatus series, Eleutherodactylus conspicillatus group according to the original publication. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) conspicillatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 120. Not assignable to a species group according to Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 127. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status (as Eleutherodactylus illotus) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 620. Arteaga-Navarro, Bustamante, and Guayasamin, 2013, Amph. Rept. Mindo: 71–73, provided an account and dot map for Ecuador.
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