Pristimantis librarius (Flores and Vigle, 1994)

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

Eleutherodactylus librarius Flores and Vigle, 1994, J. Herpetol., 28: 416. Holotype: MCZ 111147, by original designation. Type locality: "6.5 km ESE of Puerto Misashualli at La Cruz Blanca, 450 m, Provincia Napo, Ecuador (01° 04′ S, 77° 36′ W)".

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) librariusLynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 227.

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

Pristimantis (Pristimantis) librariusHedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 121.

Common Names

None noted.

Distribution

Known only from the type locality near Puerto Misashualli, Napo Province, Ecuador.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ecuador

Endemic: Ecuador

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus frater assembly, most closely related to Eleutherodactylus ockendeni and Eleutherodactylus taeniatus, according to the original publication. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 227. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) frater species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 121. Not assignable to a species group according to Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 127. Included in the Pristimantis ockendeni 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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