Pristimantis pecki (Duellman and Lynch, 1988)

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

Eleutherodactylus pecki Duellman and Lynch, 1988, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 140: 135. Holotype: KU 147040, by original designation. Type locality: "Río Piuntza, 1550 m, Cordillera del Cóndor, Provincia Morona-Santiago, Ecuador".

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) peckiLynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 230.

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

Pristimantis (Pristimantis) peckiHedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 121.

Common Names

Peck's Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 78).

Distribution

Known only from 1700 m in the Cordillera de Cutucú and 1550–1830 m in the Cordillera del Cóndor, Ecuador, and adjacent Peru.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ecuador, Peru

Comment

Most similar to Eleutherodactylus incomptus and Eleutherodactylus martiae 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: 230. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) frater species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 121. Not assignable to a species group according to Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 128. See Duellman and Lehr, 2009, Terrest.-breeding Frogs in Peru: 209, for brief account. Unassigned to species group by Mônico, Koch, Ferrão, Fernandes, Marques, Chaparro, Rodrigues, Lima, and Fouquet, 2024, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 108203: 1–19, due to a lack of molecular data.

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