Pristimantis minimus Terán-Valdez and Guayasamin, 2010

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

Pristimantis minimus Terán-Valdez and Guayasamin, 2010, Zootaxa, 2447: 54. Holotype: QCAZ 41612, by original designation. Type locality: "Cordillera del Cóndor, Miazi Alto (04.25656 S, 78.622456 W; 1300–1315 m.a.s.l.), Cantón El Pangui, Provincia Zamora Chinchipe, Ecuador".

Common Names

None noted.

Distribution

In the Cordillera del Cóndor on two elevated areas (1250–1685 elevation) on either side of the valley of the Río Nangaritza within the cantons of El Pangui and Nangaritza, Provincia Zamora Chinchipe, Ecuador.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ecuador

Endemic: Ecuador

Comment

Not assignable to a species group according to Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 127. In the Pristimantis trachyblepharis group of Zumel, Buckley, and Ron, 2021, Zool. J. Linn. Soc.: 1–40, who reported on phylogenetics. Included provisionally in the Pristimantis trachyblepharis 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. 

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