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Pristimantis pulvinatus (Rivero, 1968)
Eleutherodactylus pulvinatus Rivero, 1968, Breviora, 306: 4. Holotype: MCZ 64741, by original designation. Type locality: "Paso del Danto, region of La Escalera around 1400 m, above San Isidro road from El Dorado to Sta. Elena de Uairén, Estado Bolívar, Venezuela".
Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) pulvinatus — Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 231.
Pristimantis pulvinatus — Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2; Myers and Donnelly, 2008, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 308: 147.
Pristimantis (Pristimantis) pulvinatus — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 118.
Common Names
Danto Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 78).
Distribution
La Escalera and the upland forests of the Gran Sabana region of southeastern Venezuela, ca. 1600 m elevation; Mount Ayaganna in adjacent western Guyana; expected in adjacent Roraima, Brazil.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Guyana, Venezuela
Likely/Controversially Present: Brazil
Comment
In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) conspicillatus series, unassigned to species group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 231. Duellman, 1997, Sci. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Univ. Kansas, 2: 23, commented on a population in southeastern Venezuela. See comments regarding distribution by Gorzula and Señaris Vasquez, 1999 "1998", Scient. Guaianae, 8: 53–54. Myers and Donnelly, 2008, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 308: 79-82, discussed material from Auyantepui, Venezuela. MacCulloch and Lathrop, 2009, R. Ontario Mus. Contrib. Sci., 4: 16, commented on specimens from Mount Ayanganna, Guyana. In the subgenus Pristimantis, but unnassigned to species group by Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 171. Not assignable to a species group according to Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 128. See Cole, Townsend, Reynolds, MacCulloch, and Lathrop, 2013, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 125: 389, for brief account and records for Guyana. Señaris Vasquez, Lampo, Rojas-Runjaic, and Barrio-Amorós, 2014, Guía Ilust. Anf. Parque Nac. Canaima: 102–103, provided a photograph and a brief account for the Parque Nacional de Canaima, Venezuela. Jablonski, Grul'a, Barrio-Amorós, and Kok, 2017, Salamandra, 53: 473–478, compared the mt 16s sequence of this species with other species in the eastern tepuis of Venezuela and Guyana. See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris Vasquez, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 122–123, for comments on range, taxonomy, and literature. 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).
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