Pristimantis mondolfii (Rivero, 1984)

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

Eleutherodactylus mondolfii Rivero, 1984 "1982", Mem. Soc. Cienc. Nat. La Salle, 42: 71. Holotype: UPRM 6082, by original designation. Type locality: "Matamula, Municipio Declicias, 1.120 m., Edo. Táchira, Venezuela."

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) mondolfiiLynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 228.

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

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

Common Names

Mondolfi's Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 77).

Distribution

Known from the type locality (Matamula, Táchira, Venezuela) and from the municipality of Toledo, Norte de Santander, Colombia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia, Venezuela

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus lentiginosus complex of the Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to the original publication. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 228. 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. Acevedo-Rincón, Franco-Pallares, and Silva-Pérez, 2014, Rev. Biodivers. Neotrop., 4: 165, reported the species from the municipality of Toledo, Norte de Santander, Colombia. Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 31, suggested that this species may belong in Tachiramantis. See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 120-121, for comments on range and literature.  

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