Pristimantis marahuaka (Fuentes-Ramos and Barrio-Amorós, 2004)

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

Eleutherodactylus marahuaka Fuentes-Ramos and Barrio-Amorós, 2004, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 28: 286. Holotype: MBUCV 6637, by original designation. Type locality: "VENEZUELA, Estado Amazonas, summit of Cerra Marahuaka (N 03° 55′—W 65° 27′), aprox. 2450 m".

Pristimantis marahuakaHeinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2; Myers and Donnelly, 2008, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 308: 147.

Pristimantis (Pristimantis) marahuakaHedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 128.

Common Names

None noted.

Distribution

Summit of Cerro Marahuaca, central Amazonas, Venezuela, at around 2450 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Venezuela

Endemic: Venezuela

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to the original publication. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) unistrigatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 128. Not assignable to a species group according to Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 127. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Eleutherodactylus marahuaka) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 356. Unassigned to species group by Mônico, Koch, Ferrão, Fernandes, Marques, Chaparro, Rodrigues, Lima, and Fouquet, 2024, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 108203: 1–19, due to a lack of molecular data.

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