Pristimantis parectatus (Lynch and Rueda-Almonacid, 1998)

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

Eleutherodactylus parectatus Lynch and Rueda-Almonacid, 1998, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 22: 565. Holotype: ICN 9247, by original designation. Type locality: "Colombia, Departamento de Antioquia. Municipio de Sonsón, 8 km (by road) E Sonsón, on divide, 2780 m.s.n.m."

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

Pristimantis (Pristimantis) parectatusHedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 123.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Cloud forest at 1800–2650 m in the municipalities of Pensilvania and Samaná, Department of Caldas, and municipality of Guatepé, Antioquia, on the eastern flank of the Cordillera Central, Colombia.

Comment

Likely related to Eleutherodactylus uranobates according to the original publication. In the Pristimantis leptolophus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 123, and of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 126. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Eleutherodactylus parectatus) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 364.

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