Pristimantis reichlei Padial and De la Riva, 2009

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

Pristimantis reichlei Padial and De la Riva, 2009, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 155: 111. Holotype: MNK-A 6620, by original designation. Type locality: "Los Guácharos 500 m asl, Carrasco National Park, Provincia Chapare, Departamento Cochabamba, Bolivia (17°03′51.5″S/65°28′34.7″W)".

Common Names

Reichle's Robber Frog (Villacampa-Ortega, Serrano-Rojas, and Whitworth, 2017, Amph. Manu Learning Cent.: 86).

Distribution

From the Departamento Huánuco, in Amazonian Peru, along the Andean slopes and adjacent lowlands of Peru, Brazil (Acre) and Bolivia. The southernmost record lies in the Chapare region of central Bolivia; it has been recorded in lowland Amazonian forest and humid montane forest of the Andean foothills up to 1500 m (Chaquisacha, Carrasco National Park, Bolivia). See comment regarding records requiring confirmation. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Bolivia, Brazil, Peru

Comment

In the Pristimantis unistrigatus group and the sister species of Pristimantis danae, and previously confused with that species according to the original publication. Köhler and Jungfer, 1995, Salamandra, 31: 149-156, recorded the species as Eleutherodactylus danae in Bolivia. Padial, Gonzales-Álvarez, Reichle, Aguayo-Vedia, and De la Riva, 2004, Graellsia, 60: 169-170, provided records as Eleutherodactylus danae for the departments of Beni and La Paz, Bolivia. In the Pristimantis unistrigatus group according to the original publication. Bernarde, Machado, and Turci, 2011, Biota Neotrop., 11: 117–144, reported specimens from Reserva Extrativista Riozinho da Liberdade, Acre, Brazil. In the Pristimantis danae species group by Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 125. See Duellman and Lehr, 2009, Terrest.-breeding Frogs in Peru: 224-225, for brief account. Melo-Sampaio and Souza, 2010, Check List, 6: 385-386, provided a record for Acre, Brazil. See brief account for the Manu region, Peru, by Villacampa-Ortega, Serrano-Rojas, and Whitworth, 2017, Amph. Manu Learning Cent.: 86–87.  Cassundé, Sturaro, Maciel, Prudente, Sarmento, and Peloso, 2022, Bol. Mus. Parense Emilio Goeldi, Cienc. Nat., 17: 445–473, provided the first records for Pará, Brazil (Porto Trombetas, municipality of Oriximiná), as part of a review of the species of that state. Due to the distance from the distribution in Peru and Bolivia this record requires genetic confirmation. Crnobrna, Santa-Cruz Farfan, Gallegos, López-Rojas, Llanqui, Panduro Pisco, and Kelsen Arbaiza, 2023, Check List, 19: 449–450, provided a record from Ucayali Department, central-eastern Peru. Köhler, Glaw, Aguilar-Puntriano, Castroviejo-Fisher, Chaparro, De la Riva, Gagliardi-Urrutia, Gutiérrez, Vences, and Padial, 2024, Zoosyst. Evol., 100: 565–582, revised the limits of the species, and provided a dot map (p. 577) and description of the vocalization. They also suggested that lowland records from the Bolivian departments of Beni and La Paz, records from Manu National Park in southeastern Peru, from Serrania de Sira, central Peru, and Brazilian records from the state of Acre need to have their identifications confirmed genetically or bioacoustically.  

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