Pristimantis platydactylus (Boulenger, 1903)

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

Hylodes platydactylus Boulenger, 1903, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, 12: 554. Syntypes: BMNH 1902.11.28.11–13 (now reregistered 1947.2.15.91–96), 1903.6.30.8–10 (now reregistered 1947.2.15.91–96); BMNH 1947.2.15.92 designated lectotype by Köhler and Lötters, 1999, Copeia, 1999: 426. Type locality: "Santo Domingo, Carabaya, S.E. Peru, 6000 feet".

Hylodes platidactylusPeracca, 1904, Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. Comp. Univ. Torino, 19 (465): 29. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Eleutherodactylus platydactylusStejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582–583, by implication; Gorham, 1966, Das Tierreich, 85: 92.

Eleutherodactylus bockermanni Donoso-Barros, 1970, Bol. Soc. Biol. Concepción, 42: 17. Holotype: R. Donoso-Barros 000765 (now IZUC), by original designation. Type locality: "Runerrabaque [= Rurrenabaque], Río Bení, Bení, Bolivia". Synonymy by De la Riva, 1998 "1997", Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 11: 71, who considered the stated type locality doubtful.

Eleutherodactylus bokermanniLynch, 1976, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 61: 1–24. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) platydactylusLynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154; Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 230.

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) bockermanniLynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 221.

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

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

Common Names

Flat-fingered Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 78).

Distribution

Southeastern Peru (Departments of Pasco and Ayacucho) to central Bolivia (Department of Santa Cruz) in cloud forest, 1000–3470 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Bolivia, Peru

Comment

 Márquez, De la Riva, and Bosch, 1995, J. Zool., London, 237: 313–336, reported on vocalization in Bolivia. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 230. See account by De la Riva, 1998 "1997", Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 11: 71–90. De la Riva, Köhler, Lötters, and Reichle, 2000, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 14: 47, noted that this nominal species is likely composite. Köhler, 2000, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 48: 122–124, provided a brief account. Padial, Gonzales-Álvarez, Reichle, Aguayo-Vedia, and De la Riva, 2004, Graellsia, 60: 170, provided a record for Departamento Beni, Bolivia. Lehr, Lundberg, Aguilar, and von May, 2006, Herpetol. Monogr., 20: 122–123, provided comments on identification, biology, and range. 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: 128. See Duellman and Lehr, 2009, Terrest.-breeding Frogs in Peru: 219–220, for brief account. Included in the Pristimantis marmoratus clade of the Pristimantis unistrigatus group as delimited by Mônico, Koch, Ferrão, Fernandes, Marques, Chaparro, Rodrigues, Lima, and Fouquet, 2024, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 108203: 1–19, on molecular grounds (mtDNA and nuDNA genes) and noted at least 12 additional presumptive unnamed lineages included under this name.

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