Pristimantis nyctophylax (Lynch, 1976)

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

Eleutherodactylus nyctophylax Lynch, 1976, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 55: 16. Holotype: KU 110909, by original designation. Type locality: "Tandapi, Prov. Pichincha, Ecuador, 1460 m."

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) nyctophylaxLynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154; Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 229.

Pristimantis nyctophylaxHeinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104: 10094; Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.

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

Common Names

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

Watchful Rainfrog (Arteaga-Navarro, Bustamante, and Guayasamin, 2013, Amph. Rept. Mindo: 78). 

Distribution

Elevations of 1140–2100 m on the western flank of the Andes in the provinces of Azuay, Bolívar, Cañar, Cotopaxi, El Oro, Esmeraldas, Imbabura, Guayas, Pichincha, and Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, Ecuador. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ecuador

Endemic: Ecuador

Comment

See account by Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 118-119, who placed this taxon in the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 229. 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 nyctophylax) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 361. Arteaga-Navarro, Bustamante, and Guayasamin, 2013, Amph. Rept. Mindo: 78–79, provided an account and dot map for Ecuador. Transferred to the Pristimantis lacrimosus group on the basis of molecular data by Carrión-Olmedo and Ron, 2021, Evol. Syst., 5: 151–175. Cruz-García, Zapata-Salvatierra, Sánchez-Nivicela, Chauca, Matecki, and Perez-Correa, 2024, Ecol. Evol., 14(e11401): 7–9, discussed the range, provided a dot map, and provided records from Cañar and Guayas Provinces, Ecuador.    

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