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Pristimantis pleurostriatus (Rivero, 1984)
Eleutherodactylus pleurostriatus Rivero, 1984 "1982", Mem. Soc. Cienc. Nat. La Salle, 42: 88. Holotype: UPRM 4971, by original designation. Type locality: "San Eusebio, La Carbonera, 2.316 m. Edo. Mérida, Venezuela."
Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) pleurostriatus — Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 230.
Pristimantis pleurostriatus — Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.
Pristimantis (Pristimantis) pleurostriatus — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 118.
English Names
Side-striped Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 78).
Distribution
Cloud forests surrounding Páramo El Tambor, at the southwestern edge of the Sierra de la Culata of the Cordillera de Mérida, Estado de Mérida, Venezuela, ca. 2316 m elevation.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural resident: Venezuela
Endemic to the political unit: Venezuela
Comment
In the Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group, according to the original publication. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) conspicillatus series, unassigned to species group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 230. In the subgenus Pristimantis, but unnassigned to species group by Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 118. Not assignable to a species group according to Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 128. Barrio-Amorós, Heinicke, and Hedges, 2013, Zootaxa, 3647: 43–62, provided an account. See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 121–122, for comments on range and literature.
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