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Pristimantis myersi (Goin and Cochran, 1963)
Trachyphrynus myersi Goin and Cochran, 1963, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 31: 502. Holotype: CAS 85177, by original designation. Type locality: "Colombia, [Departamento] Nariño, 20 miles east of Pasto".
Eleutherodactylus myersi — Lynch, 1968, Herpetologica, 24: 289–300.
Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) myersi — Lynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154; Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 228.
Pristimantis myersi — Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.
Pristimantis (Pristimantis) myersi — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 125.
Pristimantis (Trachyphrynus) myersi — Franco-Mena, Guayasamin, Andrade-Brito, Yánez-Muñoz, and Rojas-Runjaic, 2023, PeerJ, 11 (e14715): 17.
Common Names
Myers' Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 77).
Distribution
Páramos on the Nudo de Pasto and the southern end of the Cordillera Central in Colombia (2900–3275 m) south along the Andes to the provinces of Imbabura and Sucumbíos, Ecuador (2800 to 3470 m).
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Colombia, Ecuador
Comment
In the monophyletic Eleutherodactylus pyrrhomerus assembly of the Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group, according to Lynch, 1984, Herpetologica, 40: 237. See account by Lynch, 1981, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 72: 25-26. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) myersi series, Eleutherodactylus myersi group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 228. In the Pristimantis myersi species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 125, and of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 126. Rojas-Runjaic and Guayasamin, 2015, Check List, 11 (Art. 1542): 1–4, reported specimens from northern Ecuador in the provinces of Sucumbíos and Imbabura, and mapped the entire range of the species.
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- To search the NIH genetic sequence database, see GenBank
- For additional information see AmphibiaWeb report
- For information on conservation status and distribution see the IUCN Redlist
- For information on distribution, habitat, and conservation see the Map of Life
- For related information on conservation and images as well as observations see iNaturalist
- For additional information specific to Ecuador see FaunaWebEcuador: Anfibios del Ecuador