Pristimantis koki Means, Heinicke, Hedges, MacCulloch, and Lathrop, 2023

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

Pristimantis koki Means, Heinicke, Hedges, MacCulloch, and Lathrop, 2023, J. Vert. Biol., Prague, 72 (23026): 7. Holotype: USNM 573463, by original designation. Type locality: "sitting on a small leaf about 50 cm off the ground next to a narrow footpath about 100 m west of the top of Kamana Falls on the south side of Mt. Kopinang of the Wokomung Massif, Potaro-Siparuni District, west-central Guyana: 04°04´50” N, 59°52´43” W, approx. 1,538 m elevation". http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:4717D931-B4A0-404D-87A0-B36F5182DE08

Common Names

Guyanan Black-rumped Landfrog (original publication). 

Distribution

Known only from the Wokomung Massif, Potaro-Siparuni District, west-central Guyana, but likely to be present at similar elevations on Mt. Ayanganna 40 km to the north because of connecting highlands between these tepuis.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Guyana

Endemic: Guyana

Comment

In the Pristimantis unistrigatus group and the sister taxon of Pristimantis kalamandeenae according to the original publication. 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 the basis of previous literature. 

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