Pristimantis nankints Ron, Carrión, Caminer, Sagredo, Navarrete, Ortega, Varela-Jaramillo, Maldonado-Castro, and Terán, 2020

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

Pristimantis nankints Ron, Carrión-Olmedo, Caminer, Sagredo, Navarrete, Ortega, Varela-Jaramillo, Maldonado-Castro, and Terán, 2020, ZooKeys, 993: 138. Holotype: QCAZ 71457, by original designation. Type locality: "Ecuador, Provincia Morona Santiago, Cantón Santiago de Méndez. Low part of the Cutucú mountain range in the vicinity of the house of Mr. Carlos Hurtado (2.78325°S; 78.15878°W), 1413 m above sea level". http://zoobank.org/F3D2457F-6AB8-49F7-9608-1A24A4054782

English Names

Nankints Rain Frog (original publication). 

Distribution

Known only from the type locality (Cantón Santiago de Méndez) on the eastern Andean slopes of the Cordillera del Cutucu, 1364 to 1413 m elevation, Provincia Morona Santiago, Ecuador. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ecuador

Endemic: Ecuador

Comment

In the Pristimantis lacrimosus species group according to the original publication. 

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